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The Journal of Emergency Medicine (JEM) is the official journal of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM). JEM is an international, peer-reviewed publication featuring original contributions of interest to both the academic and practicing emergency physician. JEM includes research papers and clinical studies as well as articles focusing on the training of emergency physicians and on the practice of emergency medicine. As AAEM's official journal, a subscription to JEM is included in the membership dues of each member.* AAEM actively encourages its membership to contribute editorial material for publication in JEM.

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Happy Birthday AAEM!

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

Common Sense, March/April 2013

Andy Walker, MD FAAEM
Editor, Common Sense
AAEM Board of Directors

The American Academy of Emergency Medicine turns twenty this year, and Common Sense will honor that milestone in several ways. In this and future issues throughout 2013, you will find two new features: “Blast from the Past” and “The Founders’ Forum.” “Blast from the Past” will reprint highlights and whole articles from early editions of Common Sense, among other historical tidbits. “The Founders’ Forum” will feature articles from the two emergency physicians who founded the Academy, Jim Keaney and Scott Plantz, as well as some of those who helped create AAEM’s bylaws and mission statement during its first year (see the photo in this issue’s “Blast from the Past”).

View the March/April 2013 issue of Common Sense

Many things about AAEM have changed over the past 20 years. The Academy is much bigger, of course, with just over 7,000 members. Common Sense is published six times a year instead of once, and each issue is about five times bigger than those early issues. Despite attempts by many during its first few years to characterize it as a fringe organization populated by malcontents, AAEM is now widely admired as occupying the ethical high ground in emergency medicine, and looked to for leadership on controversial issues in our specialty. It has influence far beyond its size.