S2 E11: Lessons in Poise. Feat. Dr. Brandon Morshedi

I want to jump in to talk about NAEMSP, the National Association of EMS Physicians.

Tell me what NAEMSP actually is.

So it's a professional association or organization that represents EMS physicians and EMS professionals.

Actually, about almost a third of our membership are non-physician members.

But these are the leaders within the subspecialty of EMS medicine, kind of the movers and shakers.

Of course, the majority of them being EMS physicians, a lot of medical directors, up-and-coming medical directors, EMS fellows.

There's even some emergency medicine residents, medical students, and pre-meds that are involved.

Most of the science that comes out of the researchers that are trying to advance the practice of EMS medicine, it tends to be funneled through an AEMSP.

So they're the ones that are not only vetting the practices that we're currently doing, but trying to advance the practice You know, challenge dogma.

I mean, we are a subspecialty of medicine.

So NAEMSP, in my opinion, is kind of leading the way with advancing that subspecialty and giving people a platform to, you know, promote, publish a lot of that research and position statements and things like that.

A lot of people I don't think realize how much research is actually like filtered and funneled through NAEMSP.

I attended the NAEMSP gathering, uh, in Tampa in January.

And, uh, one of the largest components of that gathering are the Menegazi abstracts where people present emerging research for essentially just public approval.

Uh, and they, uh, People can, there was almost 200 abstracts present when I was there.

And it was an incredible amount of research.

And a lot of people put a lot of effort into bringing data for that annual presentation.

What is, if we have this NAEMSP and they have this influence and they make these decisions, what is the gathering of eagles?

So there's a lot of overlap with the EMS physicians that are kind of the movers and shakers, the more progressive faction of our subspecialty that are part of the gathering of eagles.

You know, it started in, gosh, I think it started in Pittsburgh and then quickly moved to Dallas for about 20 years and maybe about 50 medical directors from the largest cities around the country.

It's now grown to, there's well over 100, maybe close to 150 now, and it's international.

So you have a lot of cities across the pond that are represented as well.

And these are large system providers that are, their problem today was someone else's problem yesterday.

So there are sharing resources, solutions, creative thinking, ways to kind of tackle the tip of the spear when it comes to public health crises, taking care of patients in austere environments.

And they meet weekly, virtually, and then once a year in person down in South Florida and just say, hey, here is our most recent problem.