If you are considering a career in emergency medicine, it is important to know exactly what will be expected of you. Your primary job will be to act quickly in stabilizing patients in an emergency room setting. Beyond this, you will need to be able to promptly and efficiently recognize a sick or debilitated patient without much information or a lot of tools at your disposal; you must also be able to evaluate the patient and come up with the tentative diagnosis. You will also be required to work with many patients from many different backgrounds, and thus, should have a very good amount of communication skills.

If you truly have your heart set on becoming an emergency medicine physician, you will have to commit to a good deal of education, and a potentially very long stint in residency. Generally speaking, you will be required to have four years of undergraduate work under your belt; plus four years of medical school training with a focus on emergency treatments such as cardiac life support, and trauma care. You can also take additional courses for subspecialties like toxicology, pediatric and even sports medicine. After you have finished all of the educational requirements, you will then have to go through a rigorous residency, or in some cases, internship that can last anywhere from 3 to 8 years. These years are important, as they will ready you for the real-world experience of emergency medicine.

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