Emergency Medical Services Fellowship

Cooper University Health Care offers a one-year, ACGME-accredited fellowship training program to prepare physicians for the practice of emergency medical services (EMS), a clinical specialty that includes the care of patients in all environments outside of traditional medical care facilities such as clinics, offices, and hospitals.

al for additional projects given the unique urban healthcare economics, such as Mobile Integrated Health Care. Current initiatives include opioid use disorder engagement, field buprenorphine initiation, Stop the Bleed training, and a citywide pit crew CPR model.

Cooper maintains two helicopter EMS bases providing both critical care scene and inter-facility service to a large area of southern New Jersey. A flight nurse staffs our airships and flight paramedic and fellows operate as part of the flight crew.

Our physicians also provide medical direction for numerous EMS agencies in southern New Jersey. Our program promotes physician involvement with agencies to empower the EMS community to provide the highest level of care. This is accomplished through standardized protocols, online medical command from our emergency department, chart review, real-time feedback at scenes, and competency-based training.

Our physicians are an integral part of disaster planning and response in New Jersey. We serve on the NJ EMS Task Force and Cooper is the base for the Southern Regional Medical Coordination Center. Our regional health preparedness and response facility supports the integrity of the health care system during a large-scale event or a public health emergency. Responsibilities include situational awareness, the monitoring of health care system performance and capacity, providing support to health care system logistic requests, and other operations as determined by the NJ Department of Health. Cooper's Center for Disaster and Austere Medicine is the regional leader in crisis preparedness and response. For more information, click here.

Since the development of an EMS fellowship in 2012, our fellows have been successful in pursuing opportunities within EMS. Graduated fellows have successfully expanded roles within EMS to include medical directorships, creation of new EMS programs in Tactical and Wilderness EMS, and political support for the EMS community. The EMS community peers, and governmental bodies as leaders in the field of EMS have recognized our fellows during and after their fellowship training. Current and future fellows have and continue to have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our growing system.