Dr. Chang Hang, president of the SEM and director of the department of emergency medicine at the Shin Kong Wu Ho-su Memorial Hospital (SKMH), says that in the US, the top five students from any given medical school usually choose to go into emergency medicine. The popularity of emergency medicine in recent years has meant that in addition to being doctors, those wishing to enter the field must also have an M.A.
急診醫學會理事長、新光醫院急診醫學科主任張珩說，在美國，醫學院前五名的學生都選擇急診，近年由於非常熱門，甚至需具備碩、博士資格才有機會加入急診行列。