Editing Emergency medicine (section)

====Funding for training====

"In 2010, there were 157 allopathic and 37 osteopathic emergency medicine residency programs, which collectively accept about 2,000 new residents each year. Studies have shown that attending emergency physician supervision of residents correlates to higher quality and more cost-effective practice, primarily when an emergency medicine residency exists."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aaem.org/about-aaem/aaem-history|title=American Academy of Emergency Medicine|website=AAEM – American Academy of Emergency Medicine|access-date=15 October 2018|archive-date=20 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320013013/http://www.aaem.org/about-aaem/aaem-history|url-status=dead}}</ref> Medical education is primarily funded through the Medicare program;<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1197/j.aem.2004.04.003 |pmid=15231465 |title=Financing of Emergency Medicine Graduate Medical Education Programs in an Era of Declining Medicare Reimbursement and Support |journal=Academic Emergency Medicine |volume=11 |issue=7 |pages=756–9 |year=2004 |last1=Baumann |first1=Michael R. |last2=Vadeboncoeur |first2=Tyler F. |last3=Schafermeyer |first3=Robert W. |doi-access=free}}</ref> payments are given to hospitals for each resident.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shi |first1=L |last2=Singh |first2=D |title=Delivering health care in America: A systems approach |edition=6th |location=Burlington, Massachusetts |publisher=Jones & Bartlett Learning |year=2015 |page=131}}</ref> "Fifty-five per cent of ED payments come from Medicare, fifteen per cent from Medicaid, five per cent from private payment and twenty-five per cent from commercially insured patients."<ref>{{cite journal |pmid=17694845 |year=2007 |last1=Hatley |first1=T |title=Management and financing of emergency medical services |journal=North Carolina Medical Journal |volume=68 |issue=4 |pages=259–61 |last2=Patterson |first2=P. D. |doi=10.18043/ncm.68.4.259 |doi-access=free}}</ref> However, choices of physician specialties are not mandated by any agency or program, so even though emergency departments see many Medicare/Medicaid patients and thus receive much funding for training from these programs, there is still concern over a shortage of specialty-trained emergency medicine providers.<ref>{{Cite web|year=2012|title=Recent Studies and Reports on Physician Shortages in the US|url=https://www.aamc.org/download/100598/data/|publisher=Association of American Medical Colleges|access-date=28 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021204254/https://www.aamc.org/download/100598/data/|archive-date=21 October 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>