207P00000X
207P00000X — Emergency Medicine Physician
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Emergency Medicine
- Specialization
- None — this code IS the classification
- Section
- Individual
Definition
An emergency physician focuses on the immediate decision making and action necessary to prevent death or any further disability both in the pre-hospital setting by directing emergency medical technicians and in the emergency department. The emergency physician provides immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilization and disposition of a generally diversified population of adult and pediatric patients in response to acute illness and injury.
NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.
Other codes under Emergency Medicine
These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.
- 207PE0004XEmergency Medical Services
- 207PE0005XUndersea and Hyperbaric Medicine
- 207PH0002XHospice and Palliative Medicine
- 207PP0204XPediatric Emergency Medicine
- 207PS0010XSports Medicine
- 207PT0002XMedical Toxicology