General competencies are intrinsic to emergency medicine training: a multicenter study.

Objectives: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has promulgated six areas called General Competencies (GCs) that residency programs are required to evaluate. The authors sought to determine if these domains were an intrinsic part of emergency medicine (EM) residency training by using a global assessment evaluation device.

Methods: This was an observational, multicenter, cross-sectional study that compared GC acquisition between first-, second-, and third-year (EM1, EM2, and EM3) residents.

U.S. allopathic emergency medicine residency programs: a descriptive review.

Objective: To use collected data from all 124 allopathic emergency medicine residency (EMR) programs in existence in 2001 to describe allopathic EMR training programs in the United States.

Methods: The authors performed a cross-sectional review of all 124 EMRs using self-reported, standardized data from regularly updated sources: the SAEM Residency Catalog and the AMA's FREIDA (Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database Access). The authors report median values, ranges, and interquartile ranges (IQRs) on a variety of variables.