In general, the Emergency Medicine specialty is very male-centric with 72% of providers reporting as male as compared to 27% reporting as female. People living in California, Texas, Pennsylvania, New York, and Florida enjoy living in one of the 5 most popular states/territories where Emergency Medicine providers practice. In all, there are 69,412 registered Emergency Medicine providers in the United States with over 6,262 of those located in California alone while around 4,896 chose to practice in Texas.
Emergency Medicine providers have been assigned the 207P00000X taxonomy code in the NPI registry, which is a Level II Classification. Click here for more information about medical specialty types.
Overall, Emergency Medicine specialists practice in 55 different states/territories and can be categorized into 6 different Emergency Medicine sub-specialties: Emergency Medical Services, Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Emergency Medicine), Medical Toxicology (Emergency Medicine), Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Sports Medicine (Emergency Medicine), and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine (Emergency Medecine).
An emergency physician focuses on the immediate decision making and action necessary to prevent death or any further disability both in the pre-hospital setting by directing emergency medical technicians and in the emergency department. The emergency physician provides immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilization and disposition of a generally diversified population of adult and pediatric patients in response to acute illness and injury.