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. 2022 Apr 4;23(3):418–423. doi: 10.5811/westjem.2022.2.55108

Table 1.

Emergency Medicine Subspecialties and New Frontiers.

Current accredited subspecialties Current unaccredited subspecialties New frontiers
ABEM Subspecialties
  • Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine

  • Emergency Medical Services

  • Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine

  • Internal Medicine-Critical Care Medicine

  • Medical Toxicology

  • Pain medicine

  • Pediatric Emergency Medicine

  • Sports Medicine

  • Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine

Subspecialties other ABMS Boards
  • Addiction Medicine

  • Brain Injury Medicine

  • Clinical Informatics

  • Surgical Critical Care

EM Focused Practice Designation
  • Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography

  • Administration/Operations/Quality and Safety

  • Austere/Disaster medicine

  • Emergency Imaging

  • Geriatric Emergency Medicine

  • Global/Population Health and Social Medicine

  • Forensic Medicine

  • Health Policy/Public Health

  • Injury Control

  • International Emergency Medicine

  • Medical Education

  • Neurovascular and Stroke

  • Observation Medicine

  • Occupational and Environmental Medicine

  • Research

  • Resuscitation

  • Simulation Medicine

  • Tactical Medicine

  • Telemedicine

  • Wilderness Medicine

  • Women’s Health

  • Correctional Medicine

  • Emergency Hospitalist Medicine

  • Emergency Psychiatric Medicine

  • Event Medicine

  • Healthcare Innovation

  • Patient Advocacy/Activism

  • EM Proceduralist

  • Rural Medicine

  • Substance Use Medicine

  • Wellness/Lifestyle Medicine

ABEM, American Board of Emergency Medicine; ABMS, American Board of Medical Specialties; EM, emergency medicine.