VACEP has introduced two bills in the 2026 General Assembly, and it’s also a big year for lawmaker education.
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EBM Review Series: Are they shocky?
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.
An update on our effort to improve the policy for resolving unfounded Board of Medicine complaints
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.
Virginia voters deliver a “blue tsunami” — what it means for emergency medicine
A look at what Virginia’s 2025 elections mean for emergency medicine.
EBM Review Series: Diagnostic Performance of GFAP, UCH-L1, and MAP-2 Within 30 and 60 Minutes of Traumatic Brain Injury
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.
Emergency Medicine in the 2025 Virginia Elections
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.
EBM Review Series: Restrictive vs Liberal Transfusion Strategy in Patients With Acute Brain Injury
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.
Educators, Veterans, Academics, Advocates: Meet VACEP’s 2025-2026 Leadership & Advocacy Fellows
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.
EBM Review Series: Noninvasive Ventilation for Preoxygenation During Emergency Intubation
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.
New VACEP Handbook Helps Physicians Navigate Board of Medicine Complaints
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.
A delegation of 19 Virginia emergency physicians and support staff traveled to Washington for this week’s American College of Emergency Physicians Leadership & Advocacy Conference. Here’s what they did.
VACEP's EBM Review Series: Reducing Unnecessary Blood Cultures Using a Clinical Decision Rule
Physicians at VCU Health and Naval Center Portsmouth analyze a recent peer-reviewed clinical study on bloodstream infection in the ED from the Journal of Emergency Medicine’s December 2024 edition as part of our latest Evidence-Based Medicine Review Series.
Riverside's Data-Driven Approach to Boarding: VACEP's 2025 Leadership Summit
Get the presentation from our Leadership Summit and learn how Riverside Health System cut ED boarding by nearly half and gained new ED efficiencies.
VACEP's EBM Review Series: High-Flow Nasal Oxygen vs Noninvasive Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Failure
Physicians at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth and Virginia Tech Carilion review a study looking at high-flow nasal oxygen vs. noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure.
How Emergency Medicine fared in the ‘25 session
At the General Assembly’s halfway mark, a look at where bills related to emergency medicine stand.
Navigating Medical & Behavioral Health ECOs and TDOs
What's the difference between a medical and behavioral health ECO and TDO? And why should emergency physicians and other medical providers know how to use them to get patients the care they need?
In March 2025, VACEP provided an in-depth presentation and discussion on navigating the legal and clinical complexities of both medical and behavioral health Emergency Custody Orders (ECOs) and Temporary Detention Orders (TDOs).
Riverside Claims Top Prize in Annual Jeopardy
Riverside, one of the newest EM residency programs in Virginia, claimed the top prize at our annual Resident Jeopardy! (Vacepardy?) competition at our annual conference.
And the Winners Are...
Each year at our annual conference, we honor emergency physicians whose contributions to the specialty go beyond the bedside. See who won this year.
VACEP's EBM Review Series: Timely Identification of Posterior Circulation Ischemic Stroke in the Emergency Department
Emergency physicians from Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and UVA health review a study looking at identification of posterior circulation ischemic stroke in the ED.