Disaster Medicine Fellowship - Specialist

Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio

Department of Emergency Medicine

The Department of Emergency Medicine, Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio is accepting applications for our faculty position Disaster Medicine Fellowship. Optimal candidates will have completed an emergency medicine residency and must be BC/BE in Emergency Medicine.

The Disaster Medicine Fellowship offered by the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Health San Antonio will provide program participants with a well‑rounded training program that covers the key competencies of Disaster Medicine, as outlined by SAEM. The program will provide its fellows with training to treat patients in dire circumstances in limited‑resource environments under austere conditions. The goal of the Disaster Medicine fellowship is to develop fellow skills as academic physicians and enhance fellow's abilities to serve as providers and leaders who are operationally minded specifically for disaster response.

The Disaster Medicine Fellowship curriculum will expose participants to numerous other specialty areas in pre‑hospital medicine. Program faculty include physicians from the department's EMS, tactical medicine, global health, wilderness medicine, and operational medicine sections. This program is a non‑ACGME accredited fellowship. The Disaster Medicine Fellowship is based at UT Health San Antonio, but program participants will have opportunities that extend to urban, rural, regional, national, and international disaster response efforts.

Organizations fellows can become involved with include STRAC, SAFD, EMTF 8, and Texas Task Force
1. Completion of a fellowship in Disaster Medicine will position graduates to work as experts within academic medicine as well as provide leadership and operational skills to disaster response teams.

• Eligible for Texas licensure
• Board certified / board eligible ABEM or AOBEM and / or
• Must have completed a U.S. ACGME-accredited Residency Program in Emergency Medicine

The fellowships begin July 1 and last one year. Dependent on fellowship program, fellows will divide their time between educational, clinical and field training and tenets of pre‑hospital emergency care.

University Health System is a nationally recognized teaching hospital and network of outpatient healthcare centers, owned by the people of Bexar County. In partnership with UT Health Physicians, the practice plan of UT Health San Antonio, it is consistently recognized as a leader in advanced treatment options, new technologies and clinical research. University Hospital's Emergency Department is the busiest in the region, with nearly 70,000 visits each year.

A state of the art 93,000 square ft. Emergency Department with 80 beds opened in early 2014. It also is the premier trauma center for a vast, 22‑county region of South Texas. UT Health San Antonio offers a highly competitive salary, comprehensive insurance package, and generous retirement plan. Please visit the UT Health candidate portal (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). to apply for position .

UT Health San Antonio is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer including protected veterans and persons with disabilities. All faculty appointments are designated as security sensitive positions.

UT Health San Antonio offers an excellent benefits package for its employees. Employees who work at least 20 hours a week, with an appointment of at least 4.5 months, are eligible for benefits.

Medical – UT SELECT Medical insurance is offered free for fulltime employees and administered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. Family members can be added to the plan through payroll deduction. Employees and their dependents can also receive discounted copays and coinsurance when using UT Health Physicians, a network of 800 premier physicians including more than 100 specialists. Employees receive $50,000 of group term life insurance and $50,000 of basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance for free, with options to purchase additional employee and dependent…