Dr. William Schumacher, DO, FACEP
Emergency Physician
1 E New York Ave Shore Memeorial Hosp Somers Point NJ, 08244About
Dr. William Schumacher practices Emergency Medicine in Somers Point, NJ. Dr. Schumacher assesses patients who seek immediate medical attention at any time of day or night. Emergency Medicine Physicians are trained to efficiently work with each patient and situation no matter how acute or life-threatening. Dr. Schumacher examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses conditions, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine 1991
Board Certification
American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine
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Get to know Emergency Physician Dr. William Schumacher, who serves patients in Somers Point, New Jersey.
A prominent emergency physician, Dr. Schumacher is affiliated with Bayfront Emergency Physicians, and serves as the Medical Director of EMS services at Shore Medical Center. He strives to make a difference in health and healing, one person at a time, by providing the care patients need, when they need it. He offers expert medical care for non-life-threatening illnesses and injuries.
At Shore Medical Center, kindness complements an extraordinary level of clinical sophistication. The people are the foundation of the modern medical center where advanced technology harmonizes with compassionate care. The center attracts the area’s best doctors, nurses and clinicians, and is the most favored hospital among these professionals to meet their own personal health care needs. They are dedicated to being patients’ hospital of choice, providing the highest quality healthcare services with respect and a caring, human touch.
Educated in the United States, Dr. Schumacher completed his undergraduate education at the University of Delaware in 1986, and earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1995. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in 1999.
Distinguished as a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians (FACEP), the doctor is board-certified in emergency medicine by the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine (AOBEM), which is an organization that provides board certification to qualified Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine who specialize in the medical and surgical treatment of acutely ill patients with advanced cardiac life support, trauma, and the management of other life-threatening medical issues (emergency physicians).
Emergency medicine, also known as accident and emergency medicine, is the medical specialty concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. An emergency physician works in an emergency department to care for acutely ill or injured patients on an unscheduled basis.
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