RetNavyPAC Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Didn't see this on any previous posts/threads so I wanted to throw it out A colleague just said to me, "Hey have you seen or heard of this new EM PA organization?" I confessed I had not. http://www.acempa.org/ Interested to see what the thoughts on the forum are. . . . . . . . .should be good. And don't forget to take their survey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator True Anomaly Posted August 10, 2015 Moderator Share Posted August 10, 2015 Although I'm apparently one of the very few who could join this organization, have to say I don't really see the point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator rev ronin Posted August 10, 2015 Administrator Share Posted August 10, 2015 Are they trying to upstage SEMPA by being more exclusive? Since SEMPA is ACEP-affiliated, I really don't see how they win that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted August 10, 2015 Moderator Share Posted August 10, 2015 look at their board. 3 of them are grads of the military residency program with Dsc degrees. I sent them a note saying if they only want residency grads as members they will be lucky to get 50 folks. If they opened it up to folks with the caq + five years experience working in a main dept they will get a lot more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator True Anomaly Posted August 10, 2015 Moderator Share Posted August 10, 2015 Are they trying to upstage SEMPA by being more exclusive? Since SEMPA is ACEP-affiliated, I really don't see how they win that one. My thinking is they want to create a "college" with fellows like ACEP does, but not sure how that would be any advantage. When it comes to political activity and physician-PA relations and matters more practical to in-the-trenches PA's, SEMPA is so far out in front that they'd have an extremely hard time to even come close to achieving something of significance. And I don't think my bias towards SEMPA is coloring that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatChecko Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Anyone else get the, "send us $75 and all your personal information, and we will take care of the rest" vibe from their site? It does seem a bit redundant too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetNavyPAC Posted August 11, 2015 Author Share Posted August 11, 2015 "Look at their board. 3 of them are grads of the military residency program with Dsc degrees. . ." Ahhhhhh. . . . . . Hmmmmm . . . . . . Thanks E. Brings things into sharper focus. Looks like I'm not the only one who had the WTF?! reaction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbrothers98 Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 While I can understand the long term goals of this group, I think that this group will be facing an uphill battle on it's own. I would think they would do better trying to work with SEMPA within the relationship it has developed with ACEP to pursue it's agenda. Kind of funny because I thought that SEMPA was a big supporter of the residency/fellowship movement. G Brothers PA-C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted August 20, 2015 Moderator Share Posted August 20, 2015 it seems their focus is on folks who have both a doctorate and have completed a residency...giving them a potential applicant pool nationwide of less than 100 individuals, maybe even less than 50...The army/baylor program has probably graduated 10-20 by now I would imagine and a handful of folks have done both on their own. I can think of one guy offhand who did a residency then got his PhD 10 or so years later. there must be more, but not a lot more.....yet.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator True Anomaly Posted August 21, 2015 Moderator Share Posted August 21, 2015 While I can understand the long term goals of this group, I think that this group will be facing an uphill battle on it's own. I would think they would do better trying to work with SEMPA within the relationship it has developed with ACEP to pursue it's agenda. Kind of funny because I thought that SEMPA was a big supporter of the residency/fellowship movement. G Brothers PA-C As with many things that seem confusing on the surface or redundant...usually politics is the underlying reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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