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	<span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri">Tampa - Graduate fellowships in emergency medicine help solve critical workforce shortages in many over-crowded emergency departments. The American Academy of Emergency Physicians (AAEP) invites medical teaching institutions to learn how its Post-Primary Care Graduate Fellowship in Emergency Medicine program may help them alleviate this growing shortage. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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	<span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri">&ldquo;AAEP credentials emergency medicine fellowship programs that prepare primary care physicians with backgrounds in family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine and general surgery to become highly qualified in emergency medicine,&rdquo; said AAEP Vice President David M. Lemonick, M.D., FAAEP. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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	<span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri">These fellowships are intended to meet the rigorous national board certification standards of the American Board of Physician Specialties&reg; (ABPS&reg;), the official certifying body of the American Association of Physician Specialists, Inc. (AAPS). <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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	<span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri">&ldquo;Fellows work under the supervision of faculty members experienced in all aspects of emergency medicine,&rdquo; said Loren Crown, M.D., FAAEP, program chair. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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	<span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri">Upon completion of post-graduate training and practice experience, participating physicians are eligible to apply for Board Certification in Emergency Medicine (BCEM), one of 17 member boards of the American Board of Physician Specialties. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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	<span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri">Institutional leaders interested in making their training program more attractive to prospective candidates can learn more about the AAEP Post-Primary Care Graduate Fellowship in Emergency Medicine </font></font></span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri"><span mso-highlight:=""><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt">by </span><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: calibri">visiting&nbsp; <a href="http://www.aapsus.org/graduate-fellowship"><font color="#800080">http://www.aapsus.org/graduate-fellowship</font></a>&nbsp;to download the program brochure.</span></span></font></font></span></p>
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	<span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri">The American Academy of Emergency Physicians is an affiliate of the American Association of Physician Specialists, Inc. with headquarters in Tampa, FL. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span>AAPS is a professional organization for qualified physicians who have either an allopathic (M.D.) or osteopathic (D.O.) degree.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
