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Program Description
The primary goal of the Mayo Clinic Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Fellowship Program is to provide emergency physicians with the training, resources and experience to function as premier EMS medical directors and EMS researchers.
Upon completion of the one-year EMS Fellowship training program, you will have:
- Thorough knowledge of different EMS systems, including their history, design, organization and implementation.
- A complete understanding of emergency medical dispatch communications and 9-1-1 functions.
- Expertise of indirect/off-line medical control functions
- The ability to perform medical Quality Assurance and Peer Reviews
- Skills to evaluate and educate emergency response units in the field
- Experience in presenting research at national EMS meetings
- Completed the NAEMSP EMS Medical Director’s Course
- Supervised Emergency Medical residents and provided Grand Round presentations on EMS related topics
- A profound understanding of Incident Command Management and Mass Casualty Incident response systems
- Participated in field training exercises and deployments with Special Operations Teams (Emergency Services Unit, SWAT, HAZ-MAT, High-Angle Rescue)
Mayo Clinic’s EMS Fellowship is offered in partnership with the Maricopa Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency Program and the Arizona Department of Health Services, as well as the Scottsdale and Phoenix Fire Departments.
Emergency Medical Services fellows will provide direct patient care within the Mayo Clinic Hospital Emergency Department and the Maricopa Medical Center Emergency Department as clinical emergency physicians. You also will be an integral component of the local EMS system in Phoenix and across the state of Arizona.
Program History
The Emergency Medical Services Fellowship Program at Mayo Clinic Arizona was approved in 2006 to accept its first trainee to complete the program in 2007. It is anticipated that one trainee will complete this fellowship training each year.
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