Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Ambulances parked outside emergency department

Fellows will receive 1st hand experience with patient emergencies riding alongside HFD.

Welcome to the webpage of the McGovern Medical School Department of Emergency Medicine’s Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Section.

Our section is made up of a diverse group of dedicated faculty that are active in multiple facets of Emergency Medical Services and prehospital care, from operational medical direction to EMS fellowship education, and from prehospital research to large-scale event medicine coverage.

Our group provides operational medical direction to a multitude of prehospital agencies ranging from large municipal services to small suburban services, and we administer McGovern Medical School’s ACGME-accredited EMS Fellowship.

Our faculty include experts in:

  • Medical direction
  • Disaster medicine
  • Aeromedical EMS
  • Tactical Medicine
  • Event Medicine
  • Prehospital Research
    • and other fields of prehospital care.

Thank you for checking out our section! Please have a look around using the navigation bar on the left, and feel free to reach out with any questions you may have!