Program Details
The Emory Section of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine is inviting applications for its ACGME accredited fellowship in Emergency Medical Services (EMS). Successful graduates who also meet the eligibility criteria defined by ABEM and who pass the subspecialty examination are recognized as being certified in the subspecialty of EMS.
- Advanced Degree: no
- ACGME Accredited: yes
- Length of Fellowship: 1 year
- Start: July 1
- Number of Positions: 2
Application requirements:
- Cover letter of interest
- Current CV
- 3 letters of reference (one from the residency program director). Electronic copies accepted
Please note, the deadline to submit application materials is September 1.
Service
Faculty and fellows provide medical oversight for 911 communications centers, fire-based first responders, and ground and air ambulance services in the metro Atlanta area, including Grady EMS, the emergency ambulance service for the City of Atlanta, which processes over 100,000 requests for service and transports over 70,000 patients per year. Its Biosafety Transport Team supports CDC, the Emory University Hospital Serious Communicable Disease Unit for the transport of patients that pose a serious communicable disease risk. Services are also actively engaged in event medicine, critical care transport, and mobile integrated healthcare initiatives.
Education
Faculty and fellows contribute to the EMS educational experience of the Emory emergency medicine residency program and host a medical student elective. Initial and continuing education is provided for paramedics and EMTs in the greater metro Atlanta area. The Section is also funded to disseminate training for emergency responders in management of patients with high consequence infectious diseases through the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center.
Scholarship
Emory is home to the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES). CARES was developed to help communities determine standard outcome measures for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) locally allowing for quality improvement efforts and benchmarking capability to improve care and increase survival. CARES currently has a catchment of over 80 million US residents.
The Section also collaborates with Emory’s Emergency Medicine Research Center to support:
Leadership
For more information about Emory’s Emergency Medicine EMS Fellowship, please contact Cary Sheahan, Senior Program Coordinator.