Our ACGME-accredited EMS Fellowship is designed to provide strong training for future EMS Physician leaders. We offer a broad introduction to all aspects of EMS Medical Direction, EMS Research, EMS Policy, and Clinical Prehospital Medicine. UNM EMS Fellows are active members in the UNM EMS Consortium Physician Field Response Program and work alongside UNM EMS Faculty as well as EMS providers from our many partner EMS agencies. Our fellowship was fully accredited by the ACGME in 2013 with retroactive approval to October of 2012, and graduates are eligible to take the ABEM EMS Subspecialty Board Exam. Our three fellowship positions enable EMS Fellows to pursue a specific interest of EMS within their fellowship. Our fellows have the unique opportunity to learn from 8 EMS board-certified faculty, all with their own expertise within EMS. Fellows will have exposure to Urban EMS, Rural EMS, Air Medical Services, Search and Rescue, Wilderness and Austere Medicine, National Park Medicine, Event Medicine/ Mass Gathering and many more. We have had 23 fellows complete the program since accreditation and more prior to accreditation. While all of our fellows are exposed to the depth and breadth of EMS medicine, one of the three fellowship positions focuses specifically on Rural & Tribal EMS, working closely with the UNM Center for Rural and Tribal EMS. Rural EMS Fellows have the opportunity to work closely with rural and frontier counties of New Mexico, tribal EMS agencies, and remote National Park Service agencies, including Grand Canyon and Carlsbad Caverns National Parks. The unique challenges of rural and austere EMS will be explored, including the development of extended care 911 protocols, community paramedicine strategies in remote locations, and approaches to austere and wilderness medical care. For anyone interested in the program, please view our website and/ or contact Program Director Dorothy Habrat at DHabrat@salud.unm.edu for more information!
