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EMS Fellowship Program

The EMS Fellowship is designed to give graduates of ACGME-recognized emergency medicine residencies a broad introduction to all aspects of EMS Medical Direction including ground EMS (both fire-based and private), air medical transport, tactical medicine and disaster medicine. Depending on specific interests and long-term goals, fellows may focus on any one of these areas. There are also opportunities to participate in international and wilderness EMS.  The fellowship was fully accredited by the ACGME in 2013 with retroactive approval to October of 2012.  Our curriculum meets all of the ACGME requirements for subspecialty training in EMS.

Fellowship Curriculum:

  • Orientation: The first month of the curriculum is spent doing intensive training to staff the UNM Physician Field Response vehicle including EVOC, fire-ground awareness, tactical medicine awareness, HazMat awareness, vehicle extrication, mountain rescue orientation, radio communications, providing care when first on scene, familiarization ride-alongs, and more.  This month is also open to outside residents as an away elective – prospective fellowship applicants are strongly encouraged to participate!
  • Mentored Medical Direction: Each Fellow is assigned to be the Associate Medical Director of one major EMS service under the mentorship of one of the EMS Faculty. In this capacity the fellow will act as the primary point of contact and progressively assume more responsibility over the course of the fellowship. Fellows will be involved in all aspects of medical direction including protocol development, training, personnel matters, finances, politics, etc.  In addition fellows have the option to serve as associate medical directors of other agencies to address specific interest areas such as tactical EMS, air medical transport, rural EMS, mountain rescue, etc.
  • EMS Field Time: We strongly believe that EMS physicians and medical directors are made in the streets.  Each fellow is assigned a take-home fully equipped emergency response vehicle to both drop in on appropriate calls when available and for taking Consortium Call.  Each fellow(s) shares home call for the Physician Field Response Program.  Between the fellow(s) and the faculty we provider 24-7 coverage 365 days a year both for phone consults and field response
  • Clinical:  In order to maintain clinical skills the fellows may either choose to work as senior residents in the main UNM ED or moonlight as attendings in the emergency department at UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center, out brand-new community hospital in nearby Rio Rancho, NM.  In either case the fellows are assigned 12 clinical hours (one shift) per week for 48 weeks.  SRMC offers the excitement of single and double coverage shifts in a community ED truly on the border of the Albuquerque metropolitan area and the frontier, with the comfort of the support of the main UNM hospital in downtown Albuquerque. 
  • Research: Fellows are expected to complete at least one scholarly project for presentation and or publication over the year.  We recognize that it can be difficult to conceive, implement and complete a research project within a one-year time frame.  We begin working with in-coming fellows in the spring before they begin to identify on-going projects they might join on with.  Other acceptable scholarly work includes book chapters, review articles, etc. Fellows will meet with Drs. Braude and Weiss in the first month to pick an appropriate project.
  • Didactics: Fellows meet for didactics at the UNM EMS Academy every Monday morning following our weekly fellowship administrative meeting. All aspects of EMS and Disaster Medicine are covered over the span of the year. We use NAEMSP EMS and Medical Oversight as our primary text with supplementation.
  • Courses and Conferences: All fellows are sponsored to attend their choice of either the NAEMSP National EMS Medical Director’s Course or the ACEP Medical Direction course. In addition fellows may use their generous training and travel stipend to attend courses such as CONTOMS, Confined Space, the AMPA Core Curriculum, etc. Each fellow usually attends the NAEMSP or Air Medical Transport Meeting though other conferences may be acceptable depending on individual interests.
  • Other activities: includes ride-alongs, participation in local and state EMS meetings, participation in all types of EMS, Fire and tactical trainings offered through our partner agencies, and participation in the education of residents on their EMS rotation and students at the EMS Academy.
  • Electives: Fellows are may spend one month off-site to focus on particular areas of interest.
  • Vacation: Fellows accrue 3 weeks of vacation and 3 weeks of sick leave over the year
  • Salary and Benefits:  Fellows are paid as PGY4 or 5 house officers.  In addition each fellow receives a $5000 travel and education stipend. If the fellow elects to work at SRMC for their 12 clinical hours per week then they can expert their total yearly salary to be approximately $100,000.  Fellows are full-time hospital employees with full health and other benefits.
  • Fellow offices: Fellows have dedicated office space at the EMS Academy.

Questions? Please email the Fellowship director or contact one of our current Fellows.

Click here to view the EMSA Fellowship Calendar.

Application Process: Please send a letter of interest and your CV to the Fellowship Director using email or snail mail to:

dbraude@salud.unm.edu

Darren Braude, MD, EMT-P
EMS Fellowship Director
Department of Emergency Medicine
MSC 10 – 5560
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

 

EMS Fellowship Leadership:

Fellowship Director: Darren Braude, MD, EMT-P

Associate Fellowship Director: Andrew Harrell, MD

Research Director: Steven Weiss, MD

Core EMS Faculty:

Darren Braude, MD, EMT-P

Andrew Harrell, MD

George Kennedy, MD

Additional EMS Faculty:

Joy Crook, MD

Paul Cheney, MD

Darryl Macias, MD

Robert McDaniels, MS, EMT-P

Jason Williams, BS, EMT-P

Lynn Fullerton, PhD

Marc-David Munk, MD

Michael Richards, MD

Steve Weiss, MD

Laura Banks, DVM

Phil Froman, MD

Justin Hazen, MD

Diane Rimple, MD

Paul Roth, MD

Current Fellows 2012-2013:

Chelsea White, MD, NREMT-P

Jenna White, MD

Previous Fellowship Graduates

Danniel Stites, MD

Andrew Harrell, MD

Kari Peterson, MD

Brad Greenberg, MD

Justin Hazen, MD

Laura Kay, MD

Gina Wilson-Ramirez, MD