Emergency Medicine Fellowships
Emergency Medicine Fellowship Programs
The Harvard-Affiliated Department of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has long been recognized as a leader in the field of emergency medicine.. With a focus on research, education, and clinical care, the Department of Emergency Medicine offers various fellowship opportunities to emergency medicine-trained physicians seeking to expand their knowledge and skills.
These fellowship programs are designed to provide physicians with the specialized training and experience in research, education and clinical care to excel in their chosen area of focus in emergency medicine. The Department's renowned faculty are committed to providing outstanding clinical training and mentorship to build careers and cultivate the next generation of leaders in emergency medicine.
Fellowship Programs
Climate and Human Health Fellowship
The Climate and Human Health Fellowship trains physicians to examine and advance evidence-based policies that help build climate-resilient communities and health systems. This two-year experiential fellowship training includes a master’s degree in public health (research methodology) at Harvard Chan, research projects focused on community- and hospital-based resilience and response strategies, and policy and advocacy training with partners in Washington, DC and elsewhere.
Disaster Medicine Fellowship
The Disaster Medicine Fellowship is a 1-year program in which fellows develop an expertise in all aspects of Disaster Medicine through a robust, personalized didactic and field-based curriculum, taught by faculty with vast domestic and global experience.
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Emergency Department Quality & Management
The Emergency Department Quality & Management Fellowship provides emergency medicine clinicians with the key quality improvement, operational, administrative, and management skills they need to effectively manage high functioning and patient-safe emergency departments.
Emergency Medical Services Fellowship
The Emergency Medical Services Fellowship provides physicians with training to proficiently conduct all aspects of EMS operations, system medical direction and to serve as physician leaders in disaster mitigation, planning, response and recovery. This includes treatment of clinical problems, management of the EMS system as a public health resource, education of the public, supervision, training and education of EMS personnel delivering medical care, and provision of medical leadership.
Informatics Fellowship
The Emergency Medicine Informatics Fellowship is a 2-year training program designed to create academic leaders in informatics and emergency medicine who will transform practice by analyzing, designing, implementing and evaluating information systems that improve all aspects of clinical care.
Medical Education Fellowship
The Medical Education Fellowship focuses on learning theory, curriculum design, education-based research, simulation, assessment, feedback, and faculty development with the goal of producing the next generation of medical education leaders in emergency medicine. This is a one-year mentored training program. For those interested in obtaining an advanced degree (MEd, MPH), a two-year option is available.
Resuscitation Research Fellowship
The Center of Resuscitation Science Research Fellowship provides an intensive year of training in the conduction of translational research in resuscitation medicine. Fellows will be dedicated to research and training involving resuscitation (primarily cardiac arrest but also septic shock and other shock states) with the option to pursue primarily epidemiologic (big data queries), clinical trials, or lab-based work. Each fellow will choose an area of expertise and focus his or her efforts in this area, though fellows will have ample opportunity for exposure to the full range of translational resuscitation research.
Ultrasound Fellowship
The Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship is a one-year program designed to provide mentored training for graduates of emergency medicine residency programs to become leaders in the field of emergency ultrasound. The program is accredited through the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Accreditation Council (EUFAC).
Additional Training in Emergency Medicine
The Division of International Disaster and Emergency Medicine (DIDEM) at BIDMC works with international partners to promote the growth of academic programs and clinical excellence in Emergency Medicine worldwide. The goals of the program are to build local capacity for emergency medical care delivery and disaster medical response around the world, advance the specialties of disaster and emergency medicine worldwide and provide high-level medical education in Disaster Medicine and Emergency Medicine for the international medical community.