CURRENT EVENTS
GRADUATING CLASS
Congratulations to the class of 2021! Thank you for making this year such an incredible and rich experience.
INCOMING CLASS
Welcome to the incoming class of 2022! Fellowship will start this July on our regular academic schedule. We look forward to meeting you!
COVID
Thank you to our faculty and fellows for your heroic efforts in fighting this pandemic!
THE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Fellowship in Disaster Medicine,
an affiliated fellowship of
The National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, is now celebrating its 15th year in operation., with over 75 alumni in the United States and around the world.
Qualified fellows develop an expertise in all aspects of Disaster Medicine, including EMS, humanitarian operations, chemical/biological/radiological/nuclear, and explosives (CBRNE), hospital-based emergency management, disaster simulation, and counter-terrorism medicine.
Fellows receive an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School and have the opportunity to train at institutions and schools across the Harvard-wide system. Alumni from this unrivaled educational program have become national and global leaders in the field.
ROTATIONS
We maintain relationships with selected sites in the US and internationally where fellows gain hands-on experience with experts working in the field.
RESEARCH
Fellows and faculty have published extensively in the field of disaster medicine. Each fellow submits a publication quality research paper during the fellowship year.
DEPLOYMENT
Disaster response is core to our mission. We maintain a deployment-ready team capable of international response to appropriate crisis events in coordination with Team Rubicon.
LEARN MORE
All medical fellowship offerings include an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School. They also include the Disaster Medicine, CBRNE, and Hospital Emergency Management curricula, in addition to elective concentrations in International EMS and Disaster Operations, and Counter-Terrorism Medicine.