Emergency Medicine Fellowship

Goal of Emergency Medicine Fellowship

Train Board Certified Family Medicine doctors to provide emergency care in rural emergency department settings

• Prerequisites: Current Family Medicine Board Certification, NRP, BLS, ACLS, ATLS

It is helpful to have had some intubations, sutures, and central lines and to be comfortable using POC ultrasound.

Hours

• 120 hours of Emergency Medicine per month
• (6) 1/2 days clinic per month
• 2-3 inpatient medicine shifts per month
• Monthly System Based Emergency Medicine didactics 3 hours

Conferences

• The Difficult Airway Course in San Diego, 3 days
• Rocky Mountain Winter Conference of Emergency Medicine, 4 days
• Quarterly Live Ultrasound Conferences
• USACS Quarterly Didactics

Training Facilities

• St Anthony Hospital - Level 1 trauma facility and Comprehensive stroke center. 2-3 shifts per month
• St Anthony North Hospital- Community level 2 trauma center, primary stroke center, location of the Family Medicine program. 2-3 shifts per month
• St Catherines Hospital, Garden City Kansas (4.5 hour drive from home base- 5-7 consecutive shifts per month)

Expectations on shift

You will replace a trained Emergency PA/NP for each 8-10 shift. You are expected to begin seeing an average of 2-2.5 patients an hour. You will have at least one supervising physician per shift but can see fast track patients on your own.

We will teach you how to manage traumas, transfers, and adult and pediatric medical emergencies.

By the end of your fellowship, we expect you to be able to run a rural emergency department on your own.

You complete all of your own documentation for each shift. Most people need to stay 1-2 hours per shift to complete this work initially.

Program Summary

St. Anthony North Family Medicine is offering a one-year Emergency Medicine Fellowship in partnership with the USACS Emergency Medicine Physicians and the CommonSpirit Health System. This Fellowship teaches Board Certified Family Medicine Graduates the skills necessary to provide rural emergency medicine coverage while maintaining their inpatient and outpatient clinical skills with the option of continuing OB skills. In this hybrid program, the fellows spend 100-120 hours a month in the Emergency Department and continue their Inpatient and clinic Medicine for another 80 hours a month. 

Fellows work at St. Anthony Hospital, a Level 1 Trauma Center and Comprehensive stroke center of excellence, St. Anthony North Hospital, a Level 2 Community Emergency Department, and at St Catherine’s in Garden City, Kansas to provide rural emergency care to an underserved population. These 3 diverse locations allow for the Physician to gain experience in managing a variety of Emergencies and refine lifesaving Emergency Medicine skills such as intubations, resuscitations of any age, central venous access, stabilizing trauma patients, chest tube thoracostomy, lumbar punctures, point of care ultrasound, laceration repairs. Stabilizing and transferring patients in austere environments allows you to learn key elements in managing the emergency department while on shift. The art of providing high-quality emergency care while effectively dispositioning each patient is a cornerstone of the program.

Dr. Rebekah Latham, a Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician, serves as the Medical Director for the fellowship program, provides education on a system-based core curriculum, organizes extra learning opportunities, helps fine-tune clinical skills, and assists in future opportunities.

For the Family Medicine Program, they work in the outpatient continuity clinic, seeing same-day appointments a few hours a week; they also assume the role of the Hospitalist in Family Medicine service and teach current Residents of the Family Medicine Program. Fellows are encouraged to maintain obstetrics and medicinal skills with five inpatient attending with the residents at St. Anthony North. Applications are accepted from all graduates of ACGME/AOA accredited family medicine programs and we have two spots for the 2025-26 Academic year. 

When you graduate from the program, you will have a certificate of completion. This will allow you to work in most rural emergency departments with the training you will receive. The director will help connect you with future job prospects and is happy to assist with reviewing contracts and finding the best fit to match your goals.

**Benefits and salary information available in the Graduate Medical Education tab.