EMS: Interface Between Out-of-Hospital & Hospital-Based Providers
- Continuing Education
Explore advanced, evidence-based approaches to EMS and hospital integration in this dynamic 2-day course led by emergency medicine experts from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School.
- Live Online
This course is taught online in real time.
Continuing Education Credits
Earn up to:
17.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™
17.25 Pre-hospital Continuing Education (CAPCE) Credits.
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Overview
This course is a 2-day, 17-hour course that provides participants with the knowledge and skills to expand their knowledge of out-of-hospital medicine. Through a dynamic and interactive format, the course focuses on lecture, panel, and QA-based formats to optimize provider knowledge around the pre-hospital system and the hospital’s integration with EMS. This course is designed for physicians, PAs, NPs, and RNs who interact with the prehospital health care system frequently, likely emergency, critical care, or internal medicine providers. This course is also designed for EMTs, paramedics, and other pre-hospital care providers who would like to gain knowledge in EMS-hospital systems integration.
The goal of this course is to teach providers to improve their EMS knowledge on:
- EMS certification, scope of practice, and limitations of different provider levels.
- EMS system design and systems of care.
- Protocols and online medical control with basic federal/regional rules and regulations.
- Provider awareness of their responsibilities and liability for medical control, as well as interfacility transportation.
- Awareness of upcoming controversies and expansions in EMS.
Learning Objectives
- Identify EMS provider-level scope of practice and limitations.
- Explain basic EMS system organization.
- Recognize provider and hospital legal responsibilities and risks related to EMS.
- Understand helicopter vs ground EMS capabilities and limitations.
- Apply knowledge to choose the optimal transport modality for patients.
- Learn about mass casualty and disaster incidents, and how hospital based providers participate and integrate into systems.
- Identify and appraise upcoming EMS controversies, and potential for expansion.
- Understand best practices for pediatric pre-hospital transport.
Developed and Offered By:
Continuing Education courses are developed by faculty from Harvard Medical School's teaching hospitals and accredited by Harvard Medical School. This course is offered by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Schedule
All agenda sessions are in Eastern Time.
Monday, November 17, 2025
Welcome
7:45-8:00 am
Keynote: Applying the Best of EMS for Hospital Success: How EMS Operations Can Drive Improving Inpatient Outcomes, Costs of Care, AND Patient Experience Satisfaction
8:00-8:45 am
Interactive Question and Answer Session
8:45-9:00 am
International EMS
9:00-9:30 am
Interactive Question and Answer Session
9:30-9:40 am
Break
9:40-9:50 am
Prehospital Provider Types (NREMT/Initial Training/Con Ed)
9:50-10:10 am
EMS System Types/Design
10:10-10:30 am
Systems of Care
10:30-10:50 am
Interactive Question and Answer Session
10:50-11:10 am
Medicolegal Pitfalls & EMTALA
11:10-11:50 am
Interactive Question and Answer Session
11:50 am-12:00 pm
Lunch
12:00-12:55 pm
Online Medical Control Pearls
12:55-1:20 pm
History of EMS
1:20-1:50 pm
Interactive Question and Answer Session
1:50-2:00 pm
Prehospital Cardiac Arrest
2:00-2:25 pm
Rural Medicine
2:25-2:50 pm
Interactive Question and Answer Session
2:50-3:00 pm
HEMS Utilization: Right Patient, Care, Time, Mode, & Place: The Conundrum of Matching Triage to Outcomes & the Urban / Rural Paradox of Need and Demand
3:00-3:25 pm
Delivering Critical Care to the Roadside
3:25-3:50 pm
Interactive Question and Answer Session
3:50-4:00 pm
Panel - Challenges/Choosing the Optimal Transport Mode
4:00-4:55 pm
Learning Points of Day 1
4:55-5:00 pm
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Welcome
7:45-7:50 am
Keynote: Transporting the Agitated Patient: Controversies and Caveats
7:50-8:35 am
Interactive Question and Answer Session
8:35-8:45 am
Pediatrics and EMS: Trauma and Pediatric Readiness
8:45-9:05 am
Respiratory Emergencies and Pediatric Airway Management
9:05-9:35 am
Interactive Question and Answer Session
9:35-9:45 am
Pediatric Critical Care and Interfacility Transfer
9:45-10:15 am
Pediatric Status Epilepticus: Dispatch to Disposition
10:15-10:45 am
Interactive Question and Answer Session
10:45-10:55 am
Break
10:55-11:05 am
Geriatric Transports
11:05-11:35 am
Interactive Question and Answer Session
11:35-11:45 am
Mass Casualty Incidents
11:45 am-12:15 pm
Interactive Question and Answer Session
12:15-12:20 pm
Lunch
12:20-12:45 pm
EMS Procedures: Intubation & the Ultrasound Debate
12:45-1:15 pm
Mobile Integrated Health & Future Topics
1:15-1:30 pm
Interactive Question and Answer Session
1:30-1:45 pm
Military/Tactical Medicine (three 15-min presentations + panel)
1:45-2:30 pm
Interactive Question and Answer Session
2:30-3:00 pm
Disaster Medicine
3:00-3:40 pm
Interactive Question and Answer Session
3:40-3:55 pm
Panel Discussion: Advanced Cases
3:55-4:55 pm
Learning Points of Day 2
4:55-5:00 pm
Faculty
Harvard Medical School Continuing Education attracts the best and brightest faculty from all around the world. As a student in this course, you’ll have access to outstanding course directors and faculty.
Course Director
Christie Fritz
MD, MS | Course Director
- EMS Division Faculty, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Instructor, Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Associate Course Directors
Stephen Thomas
MD, MPH | Associate Course Director
- Member of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School
- Attending Physician in Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Faculty
Caitlin Farrell
MD | Associate Course Director
- Director, EMS and Prehospital Care, Boston Children’s Hospital
- Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Paul D. Biddinger, MD, FACEP
Chief Preparedness and Continuity Officer, Mass General Brigham
Chief of the Division of Emergency Preparedness, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mass General Brigham Ann L. Prestipino MPH Endowed Chair, Division of Emergency Preparedness, Massachusetts General Hospital
Matt Bivens, MD
Attending Physician, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Attending Physician, St. Luke’s Hospital
EMS Medical Director, St. Luke’s Hospital
Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Nichole Bosson, MD, MPH, FAEMS
Medical Director, Los Angeles County EMS Agency
Associate Clinical Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
EMS Fellowship Director, Department of Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA
Instructor, J. Michael Criley Paramedic Training Institute
Jonathan Burstein, MD
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Director, Emergency Department Quality, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center State EMS Medical Director, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Gregory R. Ciottone, MD, FACEP, FIBODM, FFSEM
Director, Division of Disaster Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Instructor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Director of Medical Preparedness, National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University
Special Advisor for Medical Preparedness, U.S. National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health
Jason Cohen, DO
Chief Medical Officer, Boston MedFlight
Intensivist, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Emergency Physician, US Army
Daniel Davis, MD
EMS Medical Director, Logan Health
Medical Director, Rural Emergency Care Alliance
Chief Medical Officer, Logan Chester
Medical Director, Air Methods Regional
Sam Galvagno, MD
Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology
Michael P. Goldman, MD, MHS-Med Ed
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine) and Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Medical Director, Pediatric Critical Care Transport Program; Associate Fellowship Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Medical Director - CT - Emergency Medical Services for Children, Yale School of Medicine
Jeffrey M. Goodloe, MD, FACEP, FAEMS
Professor of Emergency Medicine, EMS Section Chief, and Director of the Oklahoma Center for Prehospital & Disaster Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine, Tulsa, OK
Chief Medical Officer, Medical Control Board, EMS System for Metropolitan Oklahoma City & Tulsa, Oklahoma Medical Director, Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Attending Emergency Physician, Hillcrest Medical Center Emergency Center, Tulsa, OK
Tim Harris, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine, Queen Mary University of London
Program Director, Emergency and Resuscitation Medicine Program, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London
Bill Justice, NREMT-P, TEMS-I
Program Manager, Oklahoma Department of Public Safety Active Threat Response Programs Director, Office of the Medical Director Special Operations and Outreach
Associate Director, University of Oklahoma Department of Emergency Medicine Center for Pre-Hospital and Disaster Medicine
Shan W. Liu, MD, SD
Director, Geriatric Emergency Medicine Division Fellowship
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Past-President, Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine
David Lockey, MB, BS, MD (Res), FFICM, FRCA, FIMC, RCS(Ed), FFSEM, FFRRHH, ACIArb
Consultant, Intensive Care Medicine, Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine & Anesthesia
National Director, Emergency Retrieval and Transfer Service (EMRTS), Wales
Gibson Chair and Immediate Past Chairman, Faculty of Pre-hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Russell D. MacDonald, MD, MPH, FCFP, FRCPC, DRCPSC
Medical Director, Toronto Paramedic Services
Medical Director, Toronto Central Ambulance Communications Centre
Professor and Co-Director, Emergency Medicine Fellowship Programs, University of Toronto
Michael McCartin, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Emergency Medicine, The University of Chicago
Assistant Medical Director, The University of Chicago Aeromedical Network
Medical Team Manager, Illinois Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue Team
Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine, UChicago Medicine
Ben Palmere, BA, NRP, TP-C, FP-C
Pediatric Preparedness Planner
MA EMSC Program Director
Office of Preparedness and Emergency Management
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
William Porcaro, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAEMS
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Attending Emergency Physician, Mount Auburn Hospital
Colby Redfield, MD
EMS Physician, Redfield EMS Medical Direction
Jordan Rettig, MD
Associate in Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
LCDR Paul Roszko, MD FAEMS FACEP
Telehealth Program Manager, VHA Office of Connected Care
Emergency Physician, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Suburban Hospital and San Francisco VA Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University
Sonny Ruskin
Paramedic, Yale Critical Care Transport Team
David Schoenfeld, MD
EMS Faculty, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Director, EMS Fellowship, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Attending Physician, Dept of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Instructor, Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Jacqueline C. Stocking, PhD, MBA, MSN, NEA-BC, FAASTN
Vice Chair for Patient Quality and Safety, Department of Internal Medicine
Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, UC Davis Health
Edward Ullman, MD
Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Needham (BIDN)
Associate Director, Emergency Cardiology, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Director, STEMI Quality Assurance, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Assistant
Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Daniel Willner, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Franklin County EMS
Assistant Medical Director, Carolina Air Care
Assistant Professor, UNC School of Medicine
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| Role | Course Fee |
|---|---|
| Physician (MD/DO) | $650.00 |
| Nurse (RN/APRN) | $450.00 |
| PA | $650.00 |
| Psychologist | $550.00 |
| Resident/Fellow | $550.00 |
| Social Worker | $450.00 |
| Allied Health Professional / Other | $650.00 |
EMT/Paramedic pricing is also available for this course: $350 / $315