TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Preface A1 - Cydulka, Rita K. A1 - Fitch, Michael T. A1 - Joing, Scott A. A1 - Wang, Vincent J. A1 - Cline, David M. A1 - Ma, O. John PY - 2017 T2 - Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine Manual, 8e AB - Prior to the spring of my third year of medical school, I hadn’t heard of the specialty emergency medicine. I didn’t know where in the medical center our “emergency room” (ER)1 was and I didn’t know that we had a combined emergency medicine (EM)/internal medicine (IM) residency program. Apparently, they didn’t promote the program much among the medical students. One day, shortly before I was to begin my final year of medical school, an EM/IM resident enlightened me and convinced me to squeeze an EM elective into my upcoming schedule. Fast forward a few months, I began my EM rotation and was hooked. On September 21,1979, three weeks into my EM elective, emergency medicine (EM) was recognized as the 23rd American specialty. Yes, I’m that old and so is our specialty. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1143138897 ER -