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:
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
Aeromedical EMS
Private EMS
Tactical EMS
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Event and Mass Gathering Medicine
Disaster Medicine
Public Health
Research
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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 Kathy Rinnert, M.D., M.P.H. Professor EMS Program Director Office: 214-648-3247 Kathy.Rinnert@UTSouthwestern.edu |
Faculty
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 |
Current Fellows

Contact:
Tahitia Martin, BS
EMS Program Coordinator
Tahitia.Martin@utsouthwestern.edu
Contact Number: 214-648-3916