UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

The University of Utah Department of Emergency Medicine offers a fellowship program in Global Health/ Global Emergency Medicine. This fellowship is geared towards the self-directed learner with the stated aim to help develop and apply academic interest(s) in the context of care in resource poor settings and in vulnerable populations both locally and abroad. Fellows are involved in longstanding projects in Vietnam and the Indian Health System, but proposals and opportunities for other projects upon application are encouraged as well. Applicants apply for a 1 or 2 (preferred) year program. The two year fellowship includes an advanced degree through the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as a distance learner. Consideration for a one year fellowship will be made on an individual basis.

In addition to their work abroad, fellows will gain clinical and educational experience at the University of Utah Emergency Department, a level-1 adult and pediatric trauma care center serving over 1.2 million people in the Salt Lake Valley and support the largest rural catchment area in the United States. They will have the opportunity to work with faculty and fellows from the other sections within our department (Ultrasound, Medical Education, Wilderness Medicine, EMS, Resuscitation) as well as residents and medical students. Fellows will spend the other half their clinical time in a variety of other practice settings such as critical access hospitals, community hospitals in the Salt Lake area, Wyoming or on the Navajo Reservation.

Upon application: Submit project proposal [can be already initiated, or area of focus for coming year(s)] multiple ongoing projects, which you can utilize

• Publish/Present 1 poster and/or manuscript/year
• Submit 1 major grant application/year (Emergency Medicine Foundation, Grand Challenge Explorations, etc)
• Responsible for International journal club meetings within department
• Regularly participate in and attend curriculum modules/ scholarly track for Emergency Medicine resident weekly conference (when in country)
• Quarterly fellow get together with guest speakers and faculty to socialize and learn more about
• Help maintain @utah_global_em Instagram page with latest on Global Health in Emergency Medicine
• Language Proficiency in area of study

Fellows are encouraged to attend a minimum of one conference or didactics course pertaining to emergency medicine, medical education, public health, global health. Past experiences have included but are not limited to ACEP, SAEM, AAEM, ACEP teaching fellowship, Health Emergencies in Large Populations, Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities Gathering, UCSF Building a Career in Global Health.