Daniel Jose Artiga
Member-at-Large UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Biography
"I am a fourth-year medical student at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. I am excited to become an emergency medicine (EM) resident and contribute to the larger EM community as a member-at-large on the RAMS Board.
Emergency medicine has critical roles at the front lines of health care and treating the neediest in our communities. These significant responsibilities are why we need to protect our specialty’s future and advocate for our residents’ training. Several new challenges have presented themselves in recent years: projected workforce demand-supply changes, widespread accreditation of residencies, changing common program requirements, and mid-level encroachment. All these issues directly impact EM residents graduating into the workforce, and the key to addressing them is education. We can better advocate for our interests as physicians if we are more informed about the social, financial, and political forces that are defining our practice. As a premiere academic organization, SAEM RAMS can be a generator and curator of the research and evidence of the evolving landscape of our profession. I would love to launch the production of these materials to build baseline knowledge surrounding these concerns to propel current and future generations of EM physicians."
Emergency medicine has critical roles at the front lines of health care and treating the neediest in our communities. These significant responsibilities are why we need to protect our specialty’s future and advocate for our residents’ training. Several new challenges have presented themselves in recent years: projected workforce demand-supply changes, widespread accreditation of residencies, changing common program requirements, and mid-level encroachment. All these issues directly impact EM residents graduating into the workforce, and the key to addressing them is education. We can better advocate for our interests as physicians if we are more informed about the social, financial, and political forces that are defining our practice. As a premiere academic organization, SAEM RAMS can be a generator and curator of the research and evidence of the evolving landscape of our profession. I would love to launch the production of these materials to build baseline knowledge surrounding these concerns to propel current and future generations of EM physicians."
