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Emergency Global Medicine Fellowship

The two-year Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship trains academic emergency medicine experts in the areas of public health, clinical care, research, advocacy, and policy. Throughout the program, participants hone the skills and tools needed to improve emergency care in global, domestic, and local communities, thereby helping to reduce health disparities.

In addition to engaging in clinical and curricular activities, trainees participate in fieldwork, develop grant writing skills, and conduct research. They benefit from faculty expertise within the Global Health Division who work across several key areas, including:

The development of emergency medicine in global settings
Travel, tropical, and infectious disease medicine
Care of asylum seekers and torture survivors
The improvement of emergency medicine delivery to Native American communities

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Nita G Avrith, MD, MPH

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Emergency Medicine

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Academic requirements for the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship include clinical work in our emergency departments, engaging in the development of an ongoing divisional project (or one that the fellow has developed independently with approval), and the production of a publication-quality manuscript.

During their time at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, fellows must participate in the Mount Sinai Core Emergency Medicine Fellows Curriculum. They must also contribute to the mentorship team for medical students and residents, give lectures and participate in journal clubs with residents in the Global Health Resident track, and engage in regular division meetings.

Our fellows perform 900 hours of clinical duties in the emergency departments at Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West. Both hospitals care for approximately 160,000 patients per year and are the bases for Mount Sinai’s PGY 1-3 Emergency Medicine Residency

Alternatively, if interested, fellows may complete part of their required clinical work at the Cheyenne River Health Center on the Eagle Butte Indian Reservation in South Dakota (as available). They are further encouraged to engage in academic conferences and other educational opportunities offered throughout the Mount Sinai Health System.

To prepare for research, fellows participate in the Mount Sinai Health System Emergency Medicine Fellows Research Methodology Lecture Series, and are encouraged to join ongoing faculty investigations. Our recent and ongoing studies have included studying serum markers of severity in COVID-19, understanding the experience of asylum seekers in the United States, and exploring the impact of Tanzanian nurses trained in the Basic Emergency Care (BEC) course, as developed by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Alternatively, as appropriate, fellows may access Mount Sinai’s broader research resources to initiate their own research project.

Our current fieldwork projects include the development of a nursing cohort in Mwanza, Tanzania, trained in the WHO BEC course; building capacity in trauma care at Hospital Dr. Antonio Musa in the Dominican Republic; development of emergency medicine at Dhulikhel Hospital in Nepal in partnership with Kathmandu University; and improvement of emergency medicine capacity within Indian Health Services in the Southwest and Great Plains regions of the United States. Participants in the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship are further encouraged to apply to Master of Public Health programs at The City University of New York.

Past fellows have elected to earn additional certificates during their fellowship, including the UNICEF Nutrition Certificate, the International Society of Tropical Medicine Certificate of Knowledge, and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers’ Health.

Our fellows may also participate in the Mount Sinai Human Rights Program and the Libertas Center for Human Rights, both of which provide culturally responsive medical assessments, mental health evaluations, and access to social services and continuity care to U.S. asylum seekers who are survivors of torture and human rights abuses.

To apply for the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship, candidates must have completed an emergency medicine residency program approved by the ACGME and be board certified/board eligible in emergency medicine. Applicants must additionally be licensed to practice medicine in the state of New York prior to the fellowship start date.

We give preference to applicants with demonstrated dedication to the domestic and/or international promotion of health equity. We accept applications through the SAEM Global Emergency Medicine Consortium and participate in the National Resident Matching Program.