Overview
One of the first ACGME-accredited EMS fellowships, with fellows responding in field vehicles and serving as assistant medical directors.
The programme
- Focus
- Emergency medical services
- Training type
- Clinical Fellowship
- Duration
- 1 year
- Start
- Institution policyWashU/BJH consortium stipend year runs 1 July - 30 June (standard start 1 July)
- Positions
- 3 per year
- Accreditation
- ACGME-accredited (since 2012)
- Department
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- ACGME EM residency completion and board-certified/eligible (others case-by-case)
- International applicants
- Institution policyInternational graduates accepted via ECFMG J-1 sponsorship (H-1B at programme discretion); Missouri temporary licence requires a permanent ECFMG certificate
- Visa support
- Institution policyWashU GME Consortium supports ECFMG J-1 visas (managed by institutional Training Program Liaisons); H-1B may be supported at department/programme discretion; WashU holds ACGME Non-Standard Training recognition so non-accredited fellowships can host J-1 trainees
- Licence requirement
- Institution policy (Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts): residents and fellows in approved Missouri training programmes must hold a Missouri temporary licence (renewed annually; applied for via the hospital) before practising; IMGs need a permanent ECFMG certificate
How to apply
- Deadline
- 4 September 2026 for the upcoming fellowship year (now passed)
- Application method
- See departmental How to Apply page
Funding
- Funding
- Take-home field response vehicle; programme-funded travel to national meetings
Official sources
https://emergencymedicine.wustl.edu/education/fellowships/ems/https://emergencymedicine.wustl.edu/education/fellowships/how-to-apply/https://gme.wustl.edu/program-leadership/trainee-management/https://www.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/adrules/csr/current/20csr/20c2150-2.pdfhttps://gme.wustl.edu/policies-procedures/stipends/