Cardioverting the First Emergency Medicine Residency Graduate

​The labor pains leading to the birth of the specialty of emergency medicine began in the mid-1960s. The public demand for emergency care was growing around the country, and physicians were leaving their private practices in greater numbers and working full-time in urban emergency departments. Nevertheless, the quality of care was at times problematic, and the need for training in emergency medicine was widely recognized.The American College of Emergency Physicians was founded in 1968, and it became a driving force for the creation of the specialty. The first training institution was the University of Cincinnati, and this organization convinced the American Medical Association to allow a residency program to be developed under the family medicine specialty with a certificate of training in emergency medicine in 1970.That is where the story of Bruce Janiak, MD, the first emergency medicine residency graduate in the world, began his career. He agreed to do his internship year at the University of Cincinnati in family medicine in return for the opportunity to train in emergency medicine. During that internship year (1969), he worked with several faculty members to develop an emergency medicine residency curriculum. After graduating from the residency in 1972, Bruce served two years in the Navy before moving to Toledo, OH, to become the medical director of the emergency department at Toledo Hospital. That is where we met.As a first- or second-year medical student at the Medical...
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