EMS & Disaster Medicine Elective

Students participating in the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Disaster Medicine elective learn about prehospital care in San Francisco's busy urban emergency medical services (EMS) system. Firsthand experiences with paramedics and dispatchers teach students about critical patient management in the prehospital setting, with didactics focused on EMS structure, communication, and disaster management topics. Students design and complete a mentored EMS project during the rotation.

**This elective is only open to third- or fourth-year medical students. Visiting students are asked to submit a short statement (500 words) describing their interest in this rotation to [email protected][email protected] , Education programs analyst.

Please note that this two-week rotation does not count as a formal residency interview. Rotators interested in the UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine Residency Program will still need to apply for a residency interview. 

• For information on applying to the UCSF emergency medicine rotations as a visiting student, please visit the UCSF School of Medicine's Visiting Student Program page.
• UCSF does not use race, gender, sex, or other protected categories or proxies for protected categories in the selection process.