Program Overview

Disaster Medicine Fellowship

The mission of the Disaster Medicine Fellowship is to develop fellows with the skills necessary to become academic leaders of disaster preparedness, management, and response.

Program Description

The program includes focus on disaster preparedness and response at the hospital, state, and federal level, emergency public health and disaster didactics in the field and the classroom, mentorship, and the development of research skills.

Objectives

• To acquire knowledge of public health and disaster-related issues through the acquisition of a Masters in Public Health (MPH) degree
• To understand key areas of disaster management and humanitarian response
• To have the ability to conduct academic and clinical research related to disaster and humanitarian response
• To develop and conduct educational activities for physicians, medical students and allied health professionals
• To learn the skills of disaster and austere medicine by integrating emergency medicine with international health and field medicine

Curriculum

The curriculum for the Disaster Fellowship integrates formal public health, research and teaching training with disaster-related field work. The curriculum will be divided into five specific areas:

Public Health Training

The core of the didactic curriculum involves obtaining an MPH from the Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. There are many learning tracks in the school, but an emphasis is placed on the disaster/humanitarian track and epidemiology. The fellowship schedule is more flexible for applicants already with an MPH degree.

Disaster Field Work

Practical experience is a key component of the Fellowship. Fellows will spend time each year both in disaster and other austere settings as determined by events and their schedule. Field work will be arranged and coordinated by the fellow under the supervision of the Fellowship Director.

Teaching

Public speaking and teaching skills are essential to leadership development. Supervised educational training will take place in lecture, bedside and scenario settings in order to develop a variety of teaching skills. Fellows are given the opportunity to teach in classes at the School of Medicine, in the residency program and as part of the Johns Hopkins Austere Medicine course.

Research

Research will emphasize innovations in disaster science. There are a wide variety of faculty in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health to mentor fellows in research methodology and implementation. Each fellow will complete at least one research project related to their work, of sufficient quality for publication.

Clinical Emergency Medicine

Fellows work 800 clinical hours per year as faculty at one of the three core hospitals of the JHU Department of Emergency Medicine. The fellow will participate in other academic activities in the Department of Emergency Medicine, including grand rounds presentations, conferences and literature reviews.

Academic Requirements

1. Fellows will be expected to produce at least 1 peer reviewed research manuscript at completion of fellowship program.
2. Fellows will successfully complete an MPH degree at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
3. Fellows will successfully complete two months as teaching attending at the JHU over the two years.

Prerequisites

• Board certified or prepared in Emergency Medicine
• Ability to obtain medical license in Maryland, USA
• Ability to obtain a clinical appointment at a Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Ability to matriculate to the Bloomberg School of Public Health for a Masters in Public Health degree

Program Length

2 years

Start Date

Usually July 1, but mid-year candidates can be considered

Fellowship Faculty

• Ed Hsu, MD, Associate Director, Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR), Professor of Emergency Medicine
• J Lee Jenkins, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
• Gabe D. Kelen, MD, Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Professor of Emergency Medicine

Fellowship Director

J. Lee Jenkins, M.D., MS, Disaster Fellowship Director, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine