EMS Partners

EMS crews from Brazoria, Galveston and Harris counties took part in a lab at the Health Education Center on the UTMB Health Galveston Campus.

In February, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education granted UTMB’s Department of Emergency Medicine initial accreditation and approval of its three-year residency program.

From a high school volunteer to a certified EMT to a fellow specializing in EMS, one new UTMB doctor knows emergency medicine from the ground up.

Dr. Dietrich Jehle, chair of UTMB Department of Emergency Medicine, expects future emergency medical residents in his department to respond to emergencies in the field by working shifts with EMS agencies, riding with crews, meeting them in ambulance bays and reviewing cases with them.