© 2001 the Emergency Medicine Journal
Editorial
Position statements
Research Committee, FAEM
Keywords: position statements
Currently there are a number of ways through which clinicians may be made aware of important issues—by journals, conferences, working parties and the minutes of organisations. This varied route of communication coupled with the large number of specialties with whom emergency medicine works may mean that important messages are not received by those most affected. Positions statements offer the means for the Faculty and Association to make clear and concise statements both to those inside and outside the specialty regarding education, training, research, service or any other area of direct concern to the specialty of emergency medicine.
Position statements will be used to clarify the specialty's viewpoint in areas that range from the undisputed to the controversial. Such statements would help individual clinicians when seeking, for example, resources for further equipment (for example, end tidal CO2 monitoring) and service delivery (for example, all patients requiring computed tomography should be scanned
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