Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio
Department of Emergency Medicine
Disaster Medicine Fellowship
The Department of Emergency Medicine, Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio is accepting applications for our faculty position Disaster Medicine Fellowship. Optimal candidates will have completed an emergency medicine residency and must be BC/BE in Emergency Medicine.
Overview
The Disaster Medicine Fellowship offered by the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Health San Antonio will provide program participants with a well-rounded training program that covers the key competencies of Disaster Medicine, as outlined by SAEM. The program will provide its fellows with training to treat patients in dire circumstances in limited-resource environments under austere conditions.
The goal of the Disaster Medicine fellowship is to develop fellow skills as academic physicians and enhance fellow's abilities to serve as providers and leaders who are operationally minded specifically for disaster response. The Disaster Medicine Fellowship curriculum will expose participants to numerous other specialty areas in pre-hospital medicine. Program faculty include physicians from the department's EMS, tactical medicine, global health, wilderness medicine, and operational medicine sections. This program is a non-ACGME accredited fellowship. The Disaster Medicine Fellowship is based at UT Health San Antonio, but program participants will have opportunities that extend to urban, rural, regional, national, and international disaster response efforts. Organizations fellows can become involved with include STRAC, SAFD, EMTF 8, and Texas Task Force 1. Completion of a fellowship in Disaster Medicine will position graduates to work as experts within academic medicine as well as provide leadership and operational skills to disaster response teams.
Requirements for Consideration
1. Eligible for Texas licensure
2. Board certified / board eligible ABEM or AOBEM and / or
3. Must have completed a U.S. ACGME-accredited Residency Program in Emergency Medicine
Structure
The fellowships begin July 1 and last one year. Dependent on fellowship program, fellows will divide their time between educational, clinical and field training and tenets of pre-hospital emergency care.
Location
University Health System is a nationally recognized teaching hospital and network of outpatient healthcare centers, owned by the people of Bexar County. In partnership with UT Health Physicians, the practice plan of UT Health San Antonio, it is consistently recognized as a leader in advanced treatment options, new technologies and clinical research. For the past four years, University Hospital has been ranked the best in the San Antonio region by U.S. News & World Report, and University Hospital's Emergency Department is the busiest in the region, with nearly 70,000 visits each year. A new, state of the art 93,000 square ft. Emergency Department with 80 beds opened in early 2014. It also is the premier trauma center for a vast, 22-county region of South Texas.
UT Health San Antonio offers a highly competitive salary, comprehensive insurance package, and generous retirement plan. Please visit the UT Health candidate portal https://uthscsa.referrals.selectminds.com/faculty to apply for position 23002098.
UT Health San Antonio is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer including protected veterans and persons with disabilities. All faculty appointments are designated as security sensitive positions.