Columbia University Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship
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The Columbia University Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship (CU Global EMF) country's first Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship program. Since its inception in 2006, this competitive program prepares the practicing physician to assume a leadership role in global health and humanitarian action. We train Emergency Physicians to become thought leaders in data-informed health systems strengthening, humanitarian action, and disaster response through research, service, and policy change. The CU Global EMF has produced leaders of global health in the WHO, Global Health Cluster, IRC, MSF, IMC, CDC, Ministries of Health, and Emergency Medicine programs worldwide.
The CU Global EM Fellowship has a history of training emergency physician educators, implementors, and researchers to decrease health disparities for vulnerable populations in settings with limited health resources. We approach these challenges through a data-driven, social determinants of health (social EM) approach to ensure health equity and justice. We produce global health leaders who approach public health problem-solving using mixed methods, implementation science to impact the global health system strengthening and humanitarian programs, effective advocacy, and impact policy.
The CU Global EMF is a two-year program that combines in-depth clinical and public health work in low health-resource settings. Fellows enroll in a Master of Public Health (MPH) in the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health (Pop Fam), under the Forced Migration and Health program. It enables fellows to:
- Obtain the Public Health and Humanitarian Action (PHHA) Certificate (Choose Pop Fam and PHHA certificate to see the 2-year curriculum)
- Contribute to the Columbia University sidHARTe - Strengthening Emergency Systems Program through partnerships with governments (currently Ghana & Rwanda), universities, and local organizations to ensure timely, integrated, adaptive health systems strengthening throughout an effectively linked continuum of care.
2 Positions to Start July 1, 2022
Fellowship Experience
Each Fellow conducts approximately six months of fieldwork over the two years, working 796 - 846 hours per year as an Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP)/ Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) /Allen Hospital Emergency Department (ED). The NYP/CUIMC ED serves the underserved population of Washington Heights NYC, a predominantly low-income, Latinx community in northern Manhattan. Also, it serves as the ED for CUIMC, a major medical center providing tertiary healthcare services to the New York Tri-State area. It serves as one of two primary teaching sites for the NYP Emergency Medicine Residency Program. The Allen Hospital is NYP's community hospital in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan. At this site, both adult and pediatric patients can receive care from the same faculty as is found at CUMC.
In addition to understanding approaches to global public health systems, our fellows gain rich experience in humanitarian, disaster, and conflict-affected settings and the response to epidemic outbreaks. Fellows have been placed in organizations including MSF, IRC, WHO, IMC, and UNICEF. Recent fellows' fieldwork includes the following illustrative examples:
- Clinical Mentor for the International Rescue Committee’s Cox’s Bazar and Chad COVID-19 response
- sidHARTe – Strengthening Emergency Systems Program Acute Care and Emergency Referral Systems (ACERS) program in rural Ghana, evaluating the indirect effects of COVID and supporting a novel emergency dispatch center for maternal/neonatal emergencies.
- Support Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - emergency medical services strengthening among Rohingya refugee community
- Central African Republic - retrospective case-control study on primary healthcare effectiveness with Faculty
- Venezuela crisis response - 2018 (IRC Colombia), Bidibidi Uganda Refugee Settlement (IRC)
- South Sudan Crisis and Diphtheria Outbreak (MSF)
- Democratic Republic of Congo - evaluating barriers to Implementation of a Community-Based Surveillance System Monitoring Internally Displaced Persons
- The Dominican Republic - Hurricane Maria NYPH response team
- West Africa - Ebola outbreak
Columbia University provides a comprehensive package of benefits designed to allow eligible faculty and staff to create a program suited to your needs and those of your family. Depending on your eligibility, the University offers healthcare coverage, dental coverage, flexible spending accounts, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), pre-tax transit and parking reimbursement, retirement benefits, tuition programs, and more. Finally, with the approval of the fellowship director, there is up to $10,000 worth of fieldwork/CME available annually.
Fellowship Curriculum
In addition to conducting clinical work during their first year, the Global EMFs are offered the ICRC Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP) Course and matriculate in the CU MSPH MPH Program. The fellows enroll in the MSPH MPH Public Health and Humanitarian Action Certificate (PHHA) in the Heilbrunn Department of Population & Family Health (Pop Fam Department).
The second year focuses more on fieldwork. Many fellows gain rich acute health systems strengthening work with the Columbia University's Pop Fam Department's sidHARTe – Strengthening Emergency Systems Program. Here, the fellows hone programmatic and technical public health research skills through collaboration with local and global institutions at the government, university, and policy level. Since 2006 the fellows have worked on various aspects of complex adaptive systems implementation research as well as cascading capacity building in Ghana, Rwanda, and India.
The CU Global EMF fellowship also places emphasis on public health approaches to complex adaptive systems strengthening and research. Through structured learning in the MPH Program, we emphasize interdisciplinary, practice-based research, and education. Additionally, through the PHHA Certificate, students learn the most current needs of international humanitarian organizations and develop the skills necessary to succeed in complex emergencies, fragile states, and post-conflict environments. Located in New York City, both faculty and staff are connected to extensive humanitarian, human rights, and health networks locally and around the world.
Projects
| Project Name & Description | Details | ||
|---|---|---|---|
sidHARTe - Strengthening Emergency Systems Program |
sidHARTe partners to provide timely, accessible, high-quality acute care systems in resource limited settings worldwide | Details |
Alumni
Ben Kaufman
Global EM Fellow 2020
Hayes Wong
Global EM Fellow 2018
Charlotte Roy
Global EM Fellow 2021
Alyssa Green
Global EM Fellow 2019
Timothy Depp
Global EM Fellow 2020
Trina Helderman
Global EM Fellow 2009
Makini Chisolm-Straker
Global EM Fellow 2015
Craig Spencer
Global EM Fellow 2013
Eric Cioe
Global EM Fellows 2015
Jonathan Lee
Global EM Fellow 2017
Andrea Tenner
Global EM Fellows 2012
Cara Taubman
Global EM Fellow 2016
Mary Choi
Global EM Fellow 2011
Tsion Firew
Global EM Fellow 2017
Tim Tran
Global EM Fellows 2014
Aaron Hultgren
Global EM Fellow 2012
Deepti Thomas
Global EM Fellow 2008
Hillary Cohen
Global EM Fellow 2008
Solomon Kuah
Global EM Fellow 2009
Jeffrey Kinyon
Global EM Fellow 2010
Dziwe Ntaba
Global EM Fellow 2013
Shama Patel
Global EM Fellow 2019
E. Brennan Bollman
Global EM Fellow 2021
Sonya Stokes
Global EM Fellow 2018
Contacts
Program Director
Rachel Moresky
Director of Columbia University Global Emergency Medicine
Rachel T. Moresky, MD, MPH, FACEP is an Associate Professor of Public Health, Heilbrunn Population, and Family Health at Columbia University Mailma...
Application
Candidates for the fellowship must have successfully completed an ACGME-accredited residency in Emergency Medicine. The fellow will serve as an attending at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The salary is very competitive: benefits, tuition fees for the MPH, the Humanitarian Emergencies of Large Populations (HELP) course, travel expenses, and stipends are provided by the fellowship.
Application Requirements
Please upload all documents to the website: 1. A letter of interest (why you are interested in our CU Fellowship in particular – please be specific) 2. A one-page personal statement (include your fellowship goals, research interests and post fellowship goals) 3. THREE letters of reference (please follow website directions at: http://www.iemfellowships.com/programs/26 and have your letter writers email LORs to Lisa Brooks-McDonald, lm3451@cumc.columbia.edu and Dr. Rachel Moresky, rtm2102@cumc.columbia.edu. a. TWO of your letters of recommendation should describe your personality and clinical acumen in detail (NOT reiterate your global health background unless they worked with you in the field) i. ONE should be from the current Residency Program Director. ii. ONE of your letters should describe your research, teaching, service, or advocacy work. 4. Curriculum vitae (please include email and mobile phone number).
Application Timeline
Application Deadline: September 30, 2021 Interviews will be conducted virtually on October 18, 2021 Match Date: November 17, 2021 Noon EST.
Interested Candidates
At this time we are not accepting H1-B visa applicants. We do not sponsor J-1 visa applicants. You may apply to our fellowship by registering through the GEM Fellowship website at: http://www.iemfellowships.com/programs/26 and uploading ALL required documents to the GEM Fellowship website. If you have any issue with regards to uploading please email Lisa Brooks-McDonald (lm3451@cumc.columbia.edu) and Dr. Rachel Moresky (rtm2102@cumc.columbia.edu).
Important Dates
Applications may only be submitted between
Jun 01, 2021 at 08:00AM
and
Sep 30, 2021 at 05:00PM
Application Deadline : Sep 30, 2021
The application deadline is September 30, 2021.
Interview Date : Oct 18, 2021
Our fellowship interviews will be held virtually on Monday, October 18, 2021. Match Date: November 17, 2021 Noon EST.