Since 1970, advocates for the Emergency Medicine specialty.
It is a busy shift when a 61-year-old male presents to your ED with chest pain. He is roomed immediately, but your lobby is pushing capacity and there are 42 admitted patients boarding in your department. How do you maximize throughput while maintaining high-quality patient care?
The 2026 Virginia General Assembly has adjourned. Emergency physicians closely watched several major policy debates, including a proposal to dramatically raise Virginia’s medical malpractice cap, legislation affecting physician assistant practice authority, new restrictions on healthcare non-compete agreements, and ongoing efforts to address workplace violence and behavioral health challenges in the Commonwealth’s healthcare system. Here’s a recap.
Learn when and how emergency physicians in Virginia can obtain a medical TDO to continue medically necessary stabilization and treatment when a patient lacks decision-making capacity.
In a late session move, the General Assembly is pushing legislation that would increase Virginia’s medical malpractice cap.
When choosing induction agents, does ketamine decrease the risk of death compared to etomidate? Authors, reviewers, and editors from VCU Health, Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University, and the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine review a December 2025 NEJM article to find out.
ACEP President Dr. L. Anthony Cirillo told Virginia emergency physicians, residents, and med students that mounting pressures from insurers, workforce shortages and political polarization demand unity, advocacy, and a renewed focus on the profession’s purpose.
At the end of the fourth week of the Virginia General Assembly, we offer a look at a few key pieces of EM-impacting legislation.
Enjana Bylykbashi, MD & Emily Kershner, MD from VCU Health review the October 2025 study on the re-evaluation of Nonoperative Management for Pediatric Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis. Here's their analysis.
Virginia emergency physicians were in Richmond for EM Advocacy Day. Here’s a look at the bills we discussed with lawmakers.
VACEP has introduced two bills in the 2026 General Assembly, and it’s also a big year for lawmaker education.
Megyn Christensen, DO & Martin Klinkhammer, MD, MHP, FACEP from Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University review the September 2025 study on the usage of shock index as a indicator of compensated shock among trauma patients. Here's their analysis.
VACEP leaders are working on reforms to reduce the burden on practitioners who are named in unfounded complaints to the Board of Medicine. This is a particularly major issue in emergency medicine, which sees hundreds of complaints annually.
A look at what Virginia’s 2025 elections mean for emergency medicine.
Paige Darrow, DO, and Martin D. Klinkhammer, MD, from Eastern Virginia Medical School, review the September 2024 JAMA Network Open study on the diagnostic performance of TBI biomarkers. Here's their analysis.
Virginia emergency physicians face critical elections in 2025. Learn how new laws, key races, and VACEP’s advocacy efforts underscore the urgent need to support EMPAC-VA.
Physicians at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth and VCU Health consider the October 2024 JAMA study on transfusion strategies in acute brain injury. Here's their review.
Each year, VACEP selects one or several early career emergency physicians to take part in our Leadership & Advocacy Fellowship. This one-year program pairs rising emergency physicians with a more senior attending, with the goal of taking on projects or experiencing the non-clinical parts of the job — like advocacy, education, and training. Meet our new Fellows.
Physicians at VCU Health and UVA Health consider a June 2024 study in the New England Journal of Medicine that looks at noninvasive ventilation for preoxygenation during emergency intubation. Here’s their review.
As VACEP seeks a legislative fix to resolving unfounded Board of Medicine complaints, we’ve compiled a handbook to walk physicians through the process of responding to such a complaint.
