The goal of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) fellowship is to prepare highly qualified and motivated academic emergency physicians for leadership and medical oversight of pre- and out-of-hospital emergency care systems with advanced competencies in EMS system design, administration, and clinical care.

The main components of this fellowship include:


+ Focused training in fundamental tenets of pre-hospital emergency care

+ Mentorship in the medical direction of EMS systems

+ Direct-field experience with local, state and federal EMS programs

+ Progressively graded medical control responsibilities for complex EMS systems with acquired proficiencies in fire-based, inter-facility, commercial, air medical and tactical medicine services.


Special areas of focus include:


+ Education and training of EMS providers

+ Continuous quality improvement of EMS

+ Administrative and developmental aspects of EMS prog...