EMS Fellowship Program

Welcome to the Florida Atlantic University Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Fellowship Program!

Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine is pleased to have received ACGME accreditation for our Emergency Medical Services Fellowship in 2024 and our inaugural fellows matriculated in July 2025.

The Florida Atlantic University Emergency Medical Services Fellowship Program focuses on training exceptional EMS physicians. Our fellows work with world class academic and clinical EMS physicians. We are innovative and bold, delivering excellent care to our community, and are advancing our field through research, discovery, teaching, and mentoring the future leaders of EMS.

The Florida Atlantic University EMS Fellowship Program is based out of Palm Beach and Broward Counties and is the first and only EMS fellowship in South Florida.

Program Highlights

• Twin 2025 Ford Police Interceptor Utility take-home Florida Atlantic Medicine EMS Physician response vehicles.
• Unique blend of a university-based fellowship within a fire-based EMS system, in collaboration with our community hospital partners.
• EMS agencies cover everything from urban to rural, ocean to Everglades.
• Faculty medical directors are progressive and innovative, delivering exceptional out-of-hospital care to our community.

Clinical EMS education is provided at local EMS agencies under the supervision of their medical directors. Fellows are responsible for responding to 911 emergencies, providing medical oversight of paramedics and EMTs in their practice of prehospital care, creating and revising medical treatment protocols, participating in the agencies’ operations and logistics, and teaching paramedics and EMTs. Fellows receive a take-home Florida Atlantic Medicine EMS Physician response vehicle that enables them to respond directly to the scene of emergencies arising in the community.

Didactic EMS education follows the NAEMSP textbook, Emergency Medical Services: Clinical Practice and Systems Oversight. Fellows also attend the weekly NAEMSP Florida Chapter EMS webinars.

Fellows attend several national EMS conferences

• NAEMSP Annual Meeting
• NAEMSP Medical Director’s Course
• NAEMSP Quality & Safety Course
• First There First Care and Gathering of the Eagles
• NREMT EMS Fellow Educational Program

Additional unique activities

• Cadaver procedure lab
• Mass casualty training exercises
• Wellness activities with EM residency
• Joint Morbidity & Mortality conferences with other FAU programs

Fellows work clinically in emergency medicine as ED attendings approximately 12 hours per week at our Baptist Health South Florida partner hospitals. Fellows work independently, though have the opportunity to oversee residents and medical students. External moonlighting is allowed upon approval of the program director.