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.

