The American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine (AOBEM) is an organization that provides

board certification Board certification is the process by which a physician or other professional demonstrates a mastery of advanced knowledge and skills through written, practical, or simulator-based testing. Certification bodies There are more than 25 boards that ...

to qualified Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine who specialize in the medical and surgical treatment of acutely ill patients with

advanced cardiac life support Advanced cardiac life support, advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS) refers to a set of clinical guidelines for the urgent and emergent treatment of life-threatening cardiovascular conditions that will cause or have caused cardiac arrest, ...

trauma Trauma most often refers to: * Major trauma, in physical medicine, severe physical injury caused by an external source * Psychological trauma, a type of damage to the psyche that occurs as a result of a severely distressing event *Traumatic i ...

, and the management of other life-threatening medical issues (

emergency physician An emergency physician (often called an "ER doctor" in the United States) is a physician who works at an emergency department to care for ill patients. The emergency physician is a specialist in advanced cardiac life support (advanced life suppo ...

s). The AOBEM is one of 18

medical specialty A medical specialty is a branch of medical practice that is focused on a defined group of patients, diseases, skills, or philosophy. Examples include those branches of medicine that deal exclusively with children (paediatrics), cancer (oncology), ...

certifying boards of the

American Osteopathic Association Bureau of Osteopathic Specialists Established in 1939, the American Osteopathic Association Bureau of Osteopathic Specialists (AOABOS) is a non-profit umbrella organization for 18 medical specialty boards in the United States. Along with the American Board of Medical Specialties (A ...

approved by the

American Osteopathic Association The American Osteopathic Association (AOA) is the representative member organization for the more than 176,000 osteopathic medical doctors (D.O.s) and osteopathic medical students in the United States. The AOA is headquartered in Chicago, Illinoi ...

(AOA). As of December 2014, 2,583 osteopathic emergency physicians held active certification with the AOBEM.

Board certification

Board certification is potentially available to osteopathic emergency physicians who have successfully completed an AOA-approved

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in emergency medicine and successfully completed the required clinical, oral, and written examinations. Candidates for certification that applied for entry into the certification pathway after September 1, 2013 must only complete the written (Part I) and oral (Part II) examinations. Osteopathic emergency medicine physicians may receive Subspecialty Certification (formerly Certification of Added Qualifications) in the following areas: *

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* Undersea and

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* Hospice and Palliative Medicine * Critical Care Medicine * Surgical Critical Care

References

External links

AOBEM homepage

American Osteopathic Association
{{authority control Osteopathic medical associations in the United States Organizations established in 1980 Medical and health professional associations in Chicago Emergency medicine organisations

Board certification

See also

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