EMS Scholarly Track

The EMS Scholarly Track is a new program, started in 2006, that is designed to provide a longitudinal experience in EMS with the hopes the resident will graduate with the skills necessary to serve as an active EMS Medical Director.

As part of the EMS track, residents are assigned to one or more EMS agencies based on their interests and serve as an Assistant Medical Director to those agencies. The residents are able to partake in many other opportunities covering EMS operations, education, and disaster management. The track was designed to allow the resident the flexibility to tailor their experience toward their interests.

The residents are mentored by our staff EMS physicians, some who have had significant EMS experience prior to medical school.

For more information on the EMS Scholarly Track, contact Jeff Myers at jwmyers@buffalo.edu.
Click here to view the complete EMS Scholarly Track guidelines.

International EMS Project

EMS Research / Projects

Current Activity

Cadaveric study on needle length for needle decompression

Paramedic Textbook, co-author, estimated release date mid-2009.

EMS provider and physician attitudes towards prehospital analgesia. Survey of EMS providers, EMS medical directors, and physicians who provide on-line medical control for EMS providers to determine barriers to prehospital analgesia.

Prehospital administration of steroids. Retrospective chart review comparing admission rates, ED length of stay, and hospital length of stay for patients who received IV steroids by EMS prior to ED arrival.

Cervical spine movement during orotracheal intubation in fresh frozen tissue.  Recorded cervical spine movement fluoroscopically; measured vertebral displacement.

Seymour JJ, Moscati RM, Billittier AJ, Janicke DM:  A Multicenter Survey of Factors Contributing to Ambulance Misuse.  Academic Emergency Medicine (in press).

2006

Myers JW, Williams B: Standing order prehospital analgesic administration: Does practice setting make a difference?  National Association of EMS Physicians, Tucson, AZ, January 19-21, 2006.

Williams B, Myers JW: Medications utilized for prehospital analgesia. National Association of EMS Physicians, Tucson, AZ, January 19-21, 2006.

2005

Lerner EB, Sayre MR, Brice JH, White LJ, Stantin AJ, Billittier AJ, Cloud SD:  Cardiac Arrest Patients Rarely Receive Chest Compressions Prior to Ambulance Arrival Despite the Availability of Pre-Arrival CPR Instructions. Submitted for presentation at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, New York, NY; May 2005.