Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Fellowship
EMS Fellow covering a Charlotte FC game with Event Medicine Team
The EMS Fellowship Program at Atrium Health’s Carolinas Medical Center was established in 1995 and has been training future leaders in prehospital medicine ever since. In July 2013, the program received initial accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The fellowship is closely affiliated with the Mecklenburg EMS Agency (Medic), which serves the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. It is the busiest ground EMS system in North Carolina with over 120,000 transports annually.
The program offers two positions annually to qualified candidates who must be residency-trained in Emergency Medicine (EM) or Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM), and board-certified or board-eligible in EM through an ACGME-accredited program. Since the graduation of our first fellow in 1996, we have consistently trained one to two fellows each year.
Fellows serve as Assistant Medical Directors for Medic and its affiliated first responder agencies, performing all duties required by the medical director. Additionally, fellows are appointed as Junior Faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine. In this role, they function as attending physicians in the Emergency Department, practicing independently and contributing to the education of residents and medical students.
Fellows also engage extensively with the Center for Prehospital Medicine (CPM), supporting paramedic education in partnership with Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC). They actively participate in Event Medicine Team activities, providing medical coverage at mass gatherings, supporting hospital disaster preparedness efforts, and offering 24/7 online medical control for EMS crews throughout Mecklenburg County.
Although participation in air medical transport is not required, fellows have the opportunity to fly on up to four rotor wing and two fixed wing aircraft, providing physician-level care for both scene responses and inter-facility critical care transports.
The program's structure offers complete medical oversight of the local prehospital system, including all BLS and ALS agencies. Fellows gain broad experience in EMS education, tactical EMS, disaster response, mass gathering medicine, air medical transport, and EMS system administration. The fellowship is highly customizable, allowing each fellow to explore areas of special interest within prehospital care.
Our program proudly adheres to ACGME standards and boasts a 100% board pass rate for the EMS subspecialty examination. Our graduates have gone on to become EMS leaders across the country.
For more information, visit our official fellowship webpage or follow us on Instagram: @carolinas_ems. Click here to submit an application.
Contact:
S. Tyler Constantine, MD, Fellowship Director
Amy Swoope, Program Coordinator
The program offers two positions annually to qualified candidates who must be residency-trained in Emergency Medicine (EM) or Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM), and board-certified or board-eligible in EM through an ACGME-accredited program. Since the graduation of our first fellow in 1996, we have consistently trained one to two fellows each year.
Fellows serve as Assistant Medical Directors for Medic and its affiliated first responder agencies, performing all duties required by the medical director. Additionally, fellows are appointed as Junior Faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine. In this role, they function as attending physicians in the Emergency Department, practicing independently and contributing to the education of residents and medical students.
Fellows also engage extensively with the Center for Prehospital Medicine (CPM), supporting paramedic education in partnership with Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC). They actively participate in Event Medicine Team activities, providing medical coverage at mass gatherings, supporting hospital disaster preparedness efforts, and offering 24/7 online medical control for EMS crews throughout Mecklenburg County.
Although participation in air medical transport is not required, fellows have the opportunity to fly on up to four rotor wing and two fixed wing aircraft, providing physician-level care for both scene responses and inter-facility critical care transports.
The program's structure offers complete medical oversight of the local prehospital system, including all BLS and ALS agencies. Fellows gain broad experience in EMS education, tactical EMS, disaster response, mass gathering medicine, air medical transport, and EMS system administration. The fellowship is highly customizable, allowing each fellow to explore areas of special interest within prehospital care.
Our program proudly adheres to ACGME standards and boasts a 100% board pass rate for the EMS subspecialty examination. Our graduates have gone on to become EMS leaders across the country.
For more information, visit our official fellowship webpage or follow us on Instagram: @carolinas_ems. Click here to submit an application.
Contact:
S. Tyler Constantine, MD, Fellowship Director
Amy Swoope, Program Coordinator
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