Emergency Medicine Credentials in St Louis and Kansas City: Does the Presence of an Emergency Medicine Residency Program Have a Geographic Difference?

• Published in: Annals of emergency medicine 1996-07, Vol.28 (1), p.27-30
• Main Authors: Steele, Mark T, Lewis, Lawrence M, Schwab, Robert A, Perez ‡, Nona M, Watson, William A
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Certification; Cross-Sectional Studies; Emergency Medicine - education; Emergency Medicine - standards; Emergency Service, Hospital; Health participants; Humans; Internship and Residency; Medical sciences; Medical Staff, Hospital - education; Medical Staff, Hospital - organization & administration; Missouri; Personnel Selection; Physician Executives; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Surveys and Questionnaires; Urban Health; Workforce
• ISSN: 0196-0644; 1097-6760
• DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(96)70134-8

Study objective: To compare emergency physician (EP) credentialing characteristics in two metropolitan areas of Missouri: Kansas City, which has had an emergency medicine (EM) residency program since 1973, and St Louis, which is without a program approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive survey concerning EP training, certification, and practice characteristics was administered by standardized telephone interviews. Participants were all emergency department directors in Kansas City and St Louis general hospital EDs serving more than 10,000 patients annually. Results: Twenty Kansas City EDs, with an annual census of 20,250±7,200; and 30 St Louis EDs, with an annual census of 27,100±13,800, were surveyed. In Kansas City, 68% of practicing EPs were EM trained, versus 10% in St Louis ( P