Emergency Medicine Physicians

What Does a Emergency Medicine Physicians Do?

Make immediate medical decisions and act to prevent death or further disability. Provide immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilization, and disposition of patients. May direct emergency medical staff in an emergency department.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• 1Select, request, perform, or interpret diagnostic procedures, such as laboratory tests, electrocardiograms, emergency ultrasounds, and radiographs.
• 2Evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs and priority of treatment.
• 3Perform emergency resuscitations on patients.
• 4Stabilize patients in critical condition.
• 5Perform such medical procedures as emergent cricothyrotomy, endotracheal intubation, and emergency thoracotomy.
• 6Analyze records, examination information, or test results to diagnose medical conditions.
• 7Consult with hospitalists and other professionals, such as social workers, regarding patients' hospital admission, continued observation, transition of care, or discharge.
• 8Conduct primary patient assessments that include information from prior medical care.

Required Skills

• Critical Thinking
• Active Listening
• Reading Comprehension
• Speaking
• Writing
• Monitoring
• Active Learning
• Learning Strategies
• Epic Systems
• MEDITECH software

Emergency Medicine Physicians Salary