There has been much hand-wringing about the 555 (18.4 percent) unfilled match spots in this year’s emergency medicine (EM) residency match. Several long-standing, excellent programs with outstanding patient pathology and well-known faculty in major metropolitan areas did not fill. Most hand-wringing has focused not on inherent attributes of the specialty, but temporal issues likely to
The inherent problems with emergency medicine that make it contradict new values and behaviors originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
