The Government Emergency Medical and Security Services Fellowship

 
 

The GEMSS fellowship provides a comprehensive extension to traditional EM physician education ranging from VIP protective service details and tactical ems activities to political, legislative and mass media activities involved in effectively providing emergency medical security for the public .

A GEMSS fellow, among many other curricular objectives, learns about the technical and security aspects of dealing with VIP protective services, tactical medicine, "all-hazards" WME preparation, and the political aspects of inter-governmental medical security management. The fellows, usually EM residency graduates, do so under direction of a regionally and nationally accomplished faculty of EMS leaders, bio-terrorism experts, chem-bio toxicologists, haz-mat specialists, police intelligence and tactical teams, FBI agents, U.S. Secret Service agents, county and state health directors, military biodefense experts, members of the news media, epidemiologists and other authorities in this rapidly evolving discipline.

Current projects

Development of area –wide tactical emergency medical operations.

Research in prehospital resuscitation and reperfusion.

Development of real-time quality control and surveillance for quarter million incident regional EMS system.

 

  • The UT Southwestern/BioTel EMS System (nearly a quarter million EMS incidents annually)
  • Parkland Health and Hospital System (about 140,000 annual ED visits)
  • The UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (37 EM faculty with 10 EMS specialists)
  • The UT Southwestern Allied Health Sciences School (trains most of the paramedics in North Texas)
  • The UT Graduate School of Public Health (6 EM faculty have MPH degrees)
  • Greater Dallas Injury Prevention Center (BioTel system sees about 80,000 injuries each year)
  • Violence Intervention and Prevention Center (more than 1,000 annual cases)
  • North Texas Poison Control Center (more than 70,000 annual consults)
  • Dallas/Fort Worth CareFlite (covers over 6,000,000 population area.

 

GEMSS Fellowship Program
Division of Emergency Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard CS2.122
Dallas TX 75390-8579
emed@utsouthwestern.edu