How would you like to see the delivery of healthcare evolve in the emergency practice setting?

"I know that the pandemic has had an impact on emergency care services and forced institutions to rethink how emergency care services are provided. I read about changing the role of the paramedic to be an extension of the physician in the hospital to provide services to patients in their homes rather than immediately transport them to the hospital. The technology to do this is available, and the benefits of a model like this could free up rooms in a busy emergency room and drive down healthcare costs for patients. It would be a win-win situation if the model was built correctly."

Be prepared to talk in an educated manner about how you feel the delivery of emergency medicine could improve over time. In the grand scheme of modern medicine, emergency medicine is one of the younger medical specialties that has seen little change over time. You may discuss the utilization of telemedicine in emergency care or staffing models to reduce physician burnout.

"I think it will be interesting to see the increased use of telehealth in emergency medicine. I think this technology will continue to grow and help physicians provide care to areas that are underserved."

"I think that everyone in EM agrees that it must change but narrowing down what specifically is incredibly difficult. With patient boarding stretching EDs to their breaking points, I think we need to work with our primary care and specialist colleagues to figure out a more sustainable model of directing patients to the ED appropriately. I think that will require a tremendous effort on the part of policy advocates so more realistically, I think emerging technologies and care schemes like Remote Patient Monitoring Devices within a Hospital at Home care model have huge potential to help alleviate some of the biggest issues facing our field. Additionally, I think we will continue to see more focused and higher quality care directed towards traditionally underserved populations as SDOH continues to be recognized as critical to whole-patient-care."