Emergency Medical Services Fellowship

Why BMC?

The Boston Medical Center EMS Fellowship has decades of experience educating and mentoring physicians for a variety of careers in EMS. Our graduates hold leadership roles in local, regional, state, and national agencies, in academics, community services, and government. Fellows have first-hand experiences that provide insight into the type of EMS career that is right for them, as well as strategic development in leadership skills to take on any challenge in EMS.

Fellows have direct, 1:1 support in developing personal goals and enhancing the curriculum to achieve those goals. We will tailor your educational program to give you the basics of EMS physician knowledge, dedicate time for your specific interests, and prepare you for the board exam in EMS.

The city of Boston and Boston EMS provide a multitude of experiences, including event medicine, disaster preparedness, paramedic training, … but we are not so large that you are lost in a crowd.

BMC Emergency Medicine is a full academic EM program with experts in education, research, ultrasound, administration, and health equity, in addition to emergency management.

Prior Fellows

Our fellows have an impact both locally and globally, holding leadership roles in state EMS, national organizations, community EMS programs, mobile integrated health, and critical care transport medicine.

Sample Week

One day a week is set aside for EMS didactics, pulling from local knowledge. Our core priorities are hands-on field time, training and assessment of EMS personnel, administration of EMS systems, and quality improvement.  Fellows participate in all aspects of Boston EMS, from routine 911 calls to special event coverage, and are integral to both creating and delivering educational programing, from basic EMT classes to more advanced ALS and critical care topics in our state-of-the-art training facility. Other days are spent in a combination of leadership interfaces with system management, dispatch, MIH and quality improvement work. In our partnership with Boston MedFlight you will participate in education, simulation, medical direction and field time.

How do I apply?

Boston Medical Center EMS program is an ACGME accredited program and part of the MATCH.

To get you started we need:

• CV
• Personal Statement
• Three letters of recommendation-one will need to be from associate program director or program director

Learn more about Boston EMS: https://www.boston.gov/departments/emergency-medical-services

Learn more about Boston MedFlight: https://www.bostonmedflight.org/

Sophia Dyer, MD, FACEP, FAEMS
EMS Fellowship Director
Medical Director, Boston EMS
Associate Medical Director, Boston MedFlight
Sophia.dyer@bmc.org

Tiffany Pleasent, MD
EMS Associate Fellowship Director
Associate Medical Director, Boston EMS
Tiffany.Pleasent@bmc.org

Ariana Weber, MD
Associate Medical Director, Boston EMS
Ariana.Weber@bmc.org

Jason Cohen, DO, FACEP, FCCM, FAEMS
Chief Medical Officer, Boston MedFlight
jason.cohen@bostonmedflight.org

Dr. Jason Cohen, DO, FACEP, FCCM, FAEMS, is the Chief Medical Officer for Boston MedFlight and an Attending Critical Care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA.  Boston MedFlight is the non-profit regional air and ground critical care transport provider for the greater metropolitan Boston area.

He has over 30 years of experience in pre-hospital, emergency, and critical care medicine along with out-of hospital resuscitation.  Following undergraduate education at Cornell University, and medical school at the University of New England, he obtained specialty training and board-certification in Emergency Medicine (University of Massachusetts Medical Center) and Critical Care (Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School).  He is also Board Certified in EMS medicine. Dr. Cohen has served for over 20 years in the United States Army, both on Active Duty and in the Army Reserves in various clinical and leadership roles and on various combat-related and humanitarian deployments.  He currently serves as the Clinical Advisor for the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) at Fort Detrick at the rank of Colonel. He serves on the Massachusetts DPH Medical Services Committee, as well as on the Regional EMS Medical Control Committee.  He is an active Board Member for the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems, the Association for Critical Care Transport, and the Air Medical Physician Association.