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Vision and Mission Statements

AEP Vision Statement-
  The Association of Emergency Physicians’ vision is to represent all practitioners of Emergency Medicine independent of economics, politics, geographic location, or training background. In essence, AEP exists to represent the “in the trenches” emergency physicians. AEP will always be focused on the issues of fairness, equity, and quality patient care. AEP will remain a democratic organization responsive to “the hands that touch the patients”. AEP will strive to improve and expand the horizons of Emergency Medical Care.

AEP Mission Statements-

    A. To promote the general welfare of Emergency Medicine and to improve the quality of emergency patient care.
    B. To promote freedom from unjust, unfair, or unlawful discrimination in the practice of emergency medicine.
    C. To represent and address the issues and concerns of the membership.
    D. To be the most cost-effective organization offering educational and professional development programs in our specialty.
    E. To collect information and provide a forum for open, uncensored, and meaningful communication concerning the quality of Emergency Medicine.

AEP Values Statement-
  The Association of Emergency Physicians declares that we, as an organization, individually and collectively, value individual human life. Our membership holds as an ethical ideal that we should treat one another as we would like to be treated, as patients or as colleagues and professionals in Emergency Medicine.

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