EMS & Disaster Medicine Fellowship

Program Overview

Our ACGME approved EMS/Disaster Medicine Fellowship began in July 2012. Dr. Mark Merlin created New Jersey’s first two EMS fellowship programs as well as physician response in the state (MD-1). Dr. Merlin is an NIH investigator with over 1.4 million of federal grant dollars and over 50 publications. This unique fellowship aligns with several state organizations and EMS systems to provide EMS leadership training that is truly outstanding. As part of a coordinated effort, the EMS fellow will support EMS operations for 30 regional ALS units covering 4 million people and more than 240,000 911 requests, as well as for both state and private helicopter systems. The fellow is supplied an official vehicle while on-call and responses to entrapments/mass casualty incidents in the field.

Our fellowship is distinctive because it encompasses all aspects of prehospital care including county based systems, private interfacility transports, state police & private airmedical transports, two tiered systems, on-scene medical direction, statewide disaster preparedness systems, mass gathering medicine, tactical EMS, EMS research and clinical teaching shifts mentoring emergency medicine residents. Additionally two tracks are available, one leading to a Masters Degree in Public Health.

The fellowship is organized into monthly rotations with ample time allocated to perform research, respond to prehospital incidents and study independently to become an effective EMS leader.

For more information about this exciting opportunity contact Dr. Navin Ariyaprakai at NAriyaprakai@MD1Program.org or the EMS Fellowship Administrative Coordinator at 973-926-6671.