The UNM EMS Physician Scene Response Program provides emergency physician-level care to the public in the Albuquerque area.

On-call EMS physicians are
available for phone consultation and scene response with any EMS agencies
affiliated with the UNM EMS Medical Direction Consortium. UNM EMS physicians
respond in fully-equipped vehicles that provide equipment and expertise not
generally available to traditional EMS services. This includes advanced
pharmacology, airway management, and ultrasound.
EMS Fellows (doctors who
have completed their residencies in emergency medicine and are studying EMS
intensively for an extra year after residency) and Senior Emergency Medicine
Residents provide primary response. Core EMS faculty physicians from the UNM EMS
Consortium provide backup and supervisory response.
The UNM EMS Physician Scene
Response Program has several goals:
All physicians who participate in the program have received specialty training to
function as EMS Physicians in the field. At
a minimum, responding physicians possess the following minimum training or
equivalent, though most have extensive background as former EMS providers: