USF Emergency Medicine Fellowships

USF offers fellowships in EMS, simulation, ultrasound, global health, administration, and even an opportunity to complete a critical care fellowship with the pulmonary critical care team!  Our trainees enjoy living in the beautiful city of Tampa and working with the wonderful residents and faculty in our department.  We offer competitive salaries and exceptional training.  

EMS Fellowship

Program Description

The EMS fellowship is a one-year program that has been ACGME accredited since 2014. EMS fellows work under a single medical director of Tampa Fire Rescue as well as Tampa General's Aeromed HEMS program. Tampa Fire Rescue answers over 65,000 calls for assistance annually and employs over 400 paramedics. TFR also maintains tactical medical response team, Hazmat team, and Urban Search and Rescue teams, as well as an international airport service. Aeromed consists of a four helicopter fleet aeromedical service that covers a 23 county area. Calls are equally distributed between scene work and interfacility transport.

The Tampa Bay area also offers multiple opportunities to work in the areas of disaster preparedness/response, and mass gathering events. There is a county wide annual mass casualty drill, as well as frequent City of Tampa events requiring event planning for large gatherings. Tampa General is also the burn center and major transplant center. Fellows function as attending physicians, supervising and educating resident physicians.

HIGHLIGHTS

8 fellowship trained EMS and Disaster Medicine Physicians

Medical Directors of all major EMS Systems in the Tampa Bay Region

3 Large EMS Systems

• City of Tampa Fire-Rescue: 80,000 calls, 400 EMTs and Medics 

• Pinellas County EMS: 200,000 calls, 1800 EMTs and Medics

• Hillsborough County Fire-Rescue: 100,000 calls, 900 EMTs and Medics 

Multiple Specialty Teams

• Critical Care Transport (2 Teams)

• Aeromedical (3 Helicopters)

• Tactical/SWAT (7 Teams)

• HazMat (3 Teams)

• Technical Rescue Team (2 Teams)

• USAR-Florida Task Force 3

• ARFF (2 International Airports)

• Marine Search and Rescue

Great Field Experience

• Physician Response Vehicle

• Paid On-Line Medical Control Shifts

• Helicopter Shifts

• Professional Sports Coverage

• Extensive Special Event Coverage

• USAR Team Deployments

Fellows receive a Clinical Instructor appointment at the University of South Florida and clinical duties take place at Tampa General Hospital (48 hours per month), the only Level I Trauma Center in the region, a burn center, and a major transplant center.  The EMS fellow will have the opportunity to work with Prehospital Providers at all levels across Tampa Bay including EMTs, Paramedics, US Military Special Forces Medics, and USF medical students and EM residents.

Competitive Salary Package, Generous Education/CME Stipend, Trip Advisor 2016 #1 Best Beach in America!

Program Application Deadline: September 1st. Interested candidates should send a letter of interest and CV to:

Rachel Semmons M.D., Director
rachel.semmons@gmail.com 

Ultrasound Fellowship

PROGRAM DESCRIPTIOn

EUFACS accredited Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Fellowship

The fellow will work clinically as an attending in the Tampa General Hospital emergency department and will be responsible for working 12 clinical hours per week and will directly supervise residents and medical students on shift.  If interested, fellows are also permitted to work shifts at our free standing emergency department which is only 10 minutes away. 

The fellow will spend an additional 10 hours per week scanning and working closely with the fellowship director as well as various physicians and sonographers in the departments of obstetrics, radiology and cardiology. Additional time will be spent on asynchronous learning material, image review, research, POCUS meetings, journal club, and preparing didactic material for presentation. Upon completion of training the fellow will receive a certificate of fellowship training from the University of South Florida and be eligible to take the ABEM FPD examination.

The fellow will be trained in the six primary emergency ultrasound applications (ECHO, gallbladder, kidneys, aorta, 1st trimester pregnancy, FAST) and other secondary applications (advanced cardiac, TEE, procedural guidance, ocular, musculoskeletal, regional anesthesia, and foreign body removal). The fellow will be expected to complete a minimum of 1000 examinations. The fellowship director reviews the fellow's ultrasound images and provides feedback. Images are stored digitally using a state of the art cloud based system (Q-path).

Interested candidates should apply through www.eusfellowships.com

Contact

Charlotte Derr, MD, RDMS, FACEP
Ultrasound Fellowship Director
charlotteder@usf.edu

Administration Fellowship

The USF Emergency Medicine Administration Fellowship is offered through TEAMHealth to prepare the medical directors and leaders in the future of our discipline. During this two-year program, fellows complete an Executive MBA program at the USF Business School and is able to work 1-2 attending ED shifts/week while also maintaining administrative duties with hospital and corporate executives. The System Medical Director for TeamHealth and Chief of Emergency Medicine, David Wein, is the director of this fellowship. He is assisted by other faculty including Associate Medical Directors Rachel Semmons and Jason Wilson. Reginald Saint-Hilaire, a fellowship alumnus and Current Medical Director of our free-standing ED in Brandon also is heavily involved. We also include experiences with TeamHealth senior leaders to ensure that fellows receive excellent education in the business and leadership of emergency medicine.

Contact

David Wein, MD, MBA, FACEP
Medical Director and Chief of EM
david_wein@teamhealth.com

Simulation Fellowship

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) is excited to offer The Interprofessional Simulation Fellowship at USF Health CAMLS. The fellowship is designed to create the next generation of leaders in healthcare education, who have the experience necessary to lead multi-disciplinary simulation centers, drive innovation in experiential learning, and research best practices in simulation-based education. USF Health CAMLS is one of the world’s largest freestanding simulation centers and is uniquely positioned to provide the fellow broad exposure to a variety of learners, simulation modalities, large-scale organizational operations, and educational interventions to advance interprofessional education and improve patient safety.

The fellowship is a 1-year, non-ACGME accredited fellowship, offered to board-eligible and board-certified emergency medicine physicians. As part of the division of emergency medicine, the simulation fellow will be a member of the clinical faculty with the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine based at Tampa General Hospital, giving the fellow the opportunity to practice in an academic setting alongside USF emergency medicine residents and medical students.  

For more information, click here to visit the fellowship site.

Contact

Nicole Rettig, MD
Simulation Fellowship Director
nabdorettig@gmail.com

Global Health Fellowship

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Global Health is a growing field in emergency medicine!  Residents interested in pursuing global health have the option of using their elective time to gain more experience in global health.  Our department is in the process of developing a formal global health track for residents and we recently partnered with USF Internal Medicine to offer a global health fellowship.  The fellowship is open to all physicians who are US-board certified (BC) or board eligible (BE) and have completed a residency in internal medicine, family medicine, emergency medicine, pediatrics, or obstetrics/gynecology.

USF has a strong history of international involvement making it a great place to train for residents interested in international medicine experience or fellowship.

Interested candidates should send a letter of interest and CV to Drs. Enola Okonkwo & Asa Oxner.

Contact

Dr. Enola Okonkwo, Assistant Program Director
Emergency Medicine
enolaokonkwo@usf.edu

Dr. Asa Oxner, Associate Program Director
Internal Medicine Residency
aoxner@health.usf.edu