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EMS Program

Overview

Pre-Hospital Component The EMS system at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital has approximately 250 pre-hospital care providers including Paramedics, EMTs, RNs, medical communicators and a full- time EMS Medical Director: Dr. Merlin. The system covers the Central New Jersey Region. The offices are located in an on campus EMS building which has the first Medical Command Center for New Jersey and the regional dispatch center (Med Central). All pre-hospital education and Specialty Care Transport operate out of this building.

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Teaching

We currently offer a Pre-Hospital Care Emergency Medical Services (EMS) elective for third and fourth year medical students, we incorporate EMS in the core rotation for the mandatory fourth year elective and offer a one year Fellowship Training Program.

Faculty

Dr. Merlin is an EMS Physician/Paramedic with over 20 years experience in pre-hospital care. He received training in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine and is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine. He has been involved with paramedic educations since 1987.Currently Dr. Merlin is the full time Emergency Medical Services director at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. He is also an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at UMDNJ-RWJMS. Dr. Merlin started the first EMS Fellowship in New Jersey and created “MD-1” which is the EMS physician response program. He oversees the medical response vehicle program for New Jersey and all the paramedic units in the state.Dr. Merlin was awarded the New Jersey American College of Emergency Physicians “EMS Physician of the year” for 2005-2006. He has been the “Clinical Instructor of the year” at both Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Morristown Memorial Hospital.

Mark Merlin, DO, Honored as New Jersey’s EMS Physician of the Year.

Click Here to see the UMG Making the Rounds feature on Dr. Mark Merlin and the EMS program.

Download the pdf for more information on the Elective for the Emergency Medicine Service (EMED 9009)