What are the differences between the standard ED programs and combined programs, such as Peds-ED, and how are these programs beneficial to the practicing physician?
Combined residencies exist in EM/IM and EM/Peds. You can get board certified in each specialty in five years instead of six if you did them separately. In order to get board certified in Peds EM you must do either an EM residency followed by a two year Peds EM fellowship or a Peds residency followed by a three year Peds EM fellowship. They are beneficial to those physicians who want to practice another specialty other than EM or who want to develop a particular academic niche in a certain clinical area. Practicing emergency physicians (either academics or community) need only a three year accredited EM residency which leads to board certification through the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM).
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