Emergency Medical Services Fellowship

UT Southwestern Department of Emergency Medicine and Parkland Hospital offers two slots for a one-year fellowship in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) for residency-trained physicians. This ACGME-accredited EMS Fellowship is structured to provide a combination of practical experiences and formal training to facilitate the development of fundamental knowledge and skills for a successful career as an EMS medical director. The fellow will become knowledgeable in the medical, operational, and administrative aspects of EMS medicine as practiced in the pre-hospital environment in both urban and rural/suburban systems, and will receive the education necessary to apply these principles to any EMS system.

EMS Fellows will be a PGY-4 through Parkland Hospital’s Graduate Medical Education office, with full benefits through Parkland Hospital, and will have a part-time faculty appointment through UT Southwestern’s Department of Emergency Medicine. They will work 6-7 ED shifts per month at Clements University Hospital (UTSW) and at Parkland Hospital (recently named as the #1 busiest Emergency Department in the country by Becker’s Hospital Review for 2018). They will be responsible for periodically supervising and teaching Emergency Medicine residents.

EMS Fellows will be trained and supervised by 12 EM/EMS faculty within the Division of EMS, 5 currently dual board-certified in EM and EMS, and will primarily work with two major EMS systems, covering Dallas, Ft. Worth, and 25 other cities in the DFW metroplex:

Parkland/UTSW BioTel EMS System

  • A consortium of twelve cities in the Dallas metropolitan area operating under one set of clinical practice guidelines, supervised by the Medical Direction team at UT Southwestern
  • On-line medical control “radio room” housed in the Parkland Emergency Department, staffed 24/7 by EMS nurses and paramedics, with EMS physicians serving as physician advisors
  • Dallas Fire-Rescue Department is the 9th largest system in the country
  • All combined, the twelve cities make the 5th largest system in the country, with >400,000 calls per year
  • Gain experience with protocol and policy revisions, education, and quality review
  • Gain experience with fire-based EMS services, Mobile Community Health Paramedics, and a novel integrated response to psychiatric emergencies with police/EMS/social worker response

MedStar Mobile Healthcare

  • ​​Public Utility Model serving >1,000,000 residents of Ft. Worth and 14 cities in the metropolitan area
  • ​​ >150,000 calls per year
  • Multi-award winning EMS service which is both CAAS and IAED accredited
  • Gain experience with “Emergency Physicians Advisory Board” and an “Office of the Medical Director”
  • Robust physician field response program
  • Heavy involvement in initial and continuing education, quality review, and paramedic credentialing


Additional EMS experiences will include

Didactics
  • Weekly didactics and quarterly EMS journal clubs to prepare the EMS fellow to pass the ABEM EMS board exam
  • Conferences and courses
  • Attendance at National Registry of EMT’s National EMS Educator’s Course
  • Attendance at National Association of EMS Physicians conference
  • Attendance at “Gathering of Eagles”, the EMS State of the Science conference from the US Metropolitan Municipalities EMS Medical Directors Alliance

Aeromedical EMS
  • CareFlite ground and air EMS (serves population of ~6 million)

Private EMS
  • Acadian EMS (online medical control for state of Texas)

Tactical EMS
  • Dallas PD SWAT utilizes Tactical Physicians for their TEMS support
  • ​Optional training available for SWAT school and other training courses
Event and Mass Gathering Medicine
  • American Airlines Center (Dallas Mavericks and Dallas Stars)
  • AT&T Stadium (Dallas Cowboys)
  • City of Dallas fairgrounds & Cotton Bowl Stadium
  • Dallas Marathon, New Year’s Eve Rave, Halloween street festival, and more

Disaster Medicine
  • Active shooter drills and training
  • Stop-The-Bleed training courses
  • Airport MCI drills (2 major airports in the DFW metroplex)
  • Optional certifications and assistance with teaching Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support through the National Disaster Life Support Foundation
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Public Health
  • Option to attend the UTSW Graduate School of Public Health and obtain a Master’s of Public Health degree

Research
  • Ample opportunity to be involved in scholarly productivity on both sides of the metroplex. Fellows often have posters and abstracts accepted to state, regional, and national meetings, and publications in peer-reviewed and non-peer reviewed journals.
For more information, check out our UT Southwestern EMS Fellowship Page

Leadership


Raymond Fowler, M.D.
Professor
Division Chief, Emergency Medical Services
James M. Atkins, M.D., Professorship in Emergency Medical Services









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​Kathy Rinnert, M.D., M.P.H.
EMS P​rogram Director
Office: 214-648-3247
Kathy.Rinnert@UTSouthwestern.edu

Faculty

S. Marshall Isaacs, M.D.
Professor
Medical Director, UT Southwestern/
​Parkland BioTel EMS System
Brandon Morshedi, M.D.
Assistant Professor and Deputy Medical Director, 
Dallas Fire-Rescue and Parkland/UTSW BioTel,
Assistant Medical Director and SWAT Physician for Dallas Police Dept. and Dallas SWAT
Brian Miller, M.D.​
Assistant Professor and Deputy Medical Director,
Dallas Fire-Rescue and Parkland/UTSW BioTel,
​ Interim Associate Medical Director for MedStar Mobile Healthcare​
Gilberto Salazar, M.D.
Associate Professor
Alexander (AJ) Kirk, M.D.
Associate Professor
Assistant Medical Director, Parkland Hospital Emergency Department
Dr. Veer Vithalani, M.D.
Medical Director of MedStar Mobile Healthcare 
Paul Rosenberger, Ed.D
Instructor 
Ronna Miller, M.D.
Associate Professor
Fernando Benitez, M.D.
Associate Professor

Current Fellows

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Contact:

Evette Garcia, AAS
EMS Program Coordinator 
Office: 214-648-2679
Evette.Garcia@UTSouthwestern.edu