Fellowship Experience
Each Fellow conducts approximately six months of fieldwork over the two years, working 796 - 846 hours per year as an Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP)/ Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) /Allen Hospital Emergency Department (ED). The NYP/CUIMC ED serves the underserved population of Washington Heights NYC, a predominantly low-income, Latinx community in northern Manhattan. Also, it serves as the ED for CUIMC, a major medical center providing tertiary healthcare services to the New York Tri-State area. It serves as one of two primary teaching sites for the NYP Emergency Medicine Residency Program. The Allen Hospital is NYP's community hospital in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan. At this site, both adult and pediatric patients can receive care from the same faculty as is found at CUMC.
In addition to understanding approaches to global public health systems, our fellows gain rich experience in humanitarian, disaster, and conflict-affected settings and the response to epidemic outbreaks. Fellows have been placed in organizations including MSF, IRC, WHO, IMC, and UNICEF. Recent fellows' fieldwork includes the following illustrative examples:
- Clinical Mentor for the International Rescue Committee’s Cox’s Bazar and Chad COVID-19 response
- sidHARTe – Strengthening Emergency Systems Program Acute Care and Emergency Referral Systems (ACERS) program in rural Ghana, evaluating the indirect effects of COVID and supporting a novel emergency dispatch center for maternal/neonatal emergencies.
- Support Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - EMS strengthening among Rohingya refugee community
- Central African Republic - retrospective case-control study on primary healthcare effectiveness
- Venezuela crisis response - 2018 (IRC Colombia), Bidibidi Uganda Refugee Settlement (IRC)
- South Sudan Crisis and Diphtheria Outbreak (MSF)
- Democratic Republic of Congo - evaluating barriers to Implementation of a Community-Based Surveillance System Monitoring Internally Displaced Persons
- The Dominican Republic - Hurricane Maria NYPH response team
- West Africa - Ebola outbreak
Columbia University provides a comprehensive package of benefits designed to allow eligible faculty and staff to create a program suited to your needs and those of your family. Depending on your eligibility, the University offers healthcare coverage, dental coverage, flexible spending accounts, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), pre-tax transit and parking reimbursement, retirement benefits, tuition programs, and more. Finally, with the approval of the fellowship director, there is up to $10,000 worth of fieldwork/CME available annually.