Ornge, Ontario’s provider of air ambulance and related critical care services is currently accepting applications for Fellowship in Prehospital and Transport Medicine. There are five streams of Fellowship opportunities to apply to.

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Program Overview: The Ornge Fellowship is an immersive, 12-month full-time clinical program focused on Canadian pre-hospital medicine. It is designed for physicians who have completed specialist training (in emergency medicine, anesthesia, or critical care medicine) and preferably have experience or interest in pre-hospital medicine.
Candidate Experience: The fellowship begins with a thorough four to six-week induction program, after which the successful fellow gains hands-on experience as an active clinician working alongside Ornge’s air and land critical care transport teams. In addition to providing frontline clinical care, the fellow collaborates with transport medicine physicians and paramedics to develop and implement the annual continuing medical education program. The fellow also supports transport medicine physicians at the operations control center by providing on-line medical control for Ornge clinical teams across Ontario. While prior experience in clinical pre-hospital medicine is not required, applicants are encouraged to complete a one-month elective in pre-hospital medicine during their senior years of specialty training. Ideal candidates will have completed specialty training in emergency medicine, anesthesia, or critical care medicine and must be legally entitled to work in Canada. Applicants with relevant pre-hospital experience are strongly encouraged to apply.
Positions and Location: One fellowship position is available annually. Base location is Toronto with 1-2 rotations in Northern Ontario bases.
Application Process: Applications are due by September 30^th, 2025, for the January 2027 intake. Applications must include a CV and cover letter. Submissions should be emailed to fellowship@ornge.ca. Applications open annually starting August 1^st.

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Program Summary: The Ornge Area of Advanced Learning is a six-month clinically focused rotation designed for Canadian resident physicians in the final year of their FRCPC specialty training with relevant experience who are interested in pursuing a career in pre-hospital medicine.
Candidate Experience: This opportunity was developed for Canadian physicians eager to enhance their clinical skills in managing critically ill and injured patients within the demanding pre-hospital environment. While prior experience in EMS or pre-hospital medicine is advantageous, it is not a prerequisite for applying.
Timeline and Duration: The program begins with a comprehensive 4-6 week induction training block in Toronto, followed by five months of clinical rotations based in Greater Toronto Area. The typical placement runs from January 1^st to June 30^th each year.

Available Position: One AAL rotation position is awarded annually.
Application Details: Applications are due by September 30^th, 2025, for a January 1^st, 2027, program start. Applications must include a CV, cover letter, and a letter of support from the applicant’s program director. All materials should be emailed to fellowship@ornge.ca.
Application Status: Applications open every year on August 1^st.

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Program Summary: The Ornge elective is a four-week observership providing physicians with an opportunity to experience the day-to-day operations of a critical care transport organization.
Opportunity: Participants will gain experience directly observing Ornge’s air and land critical care transport teams during clinical ride outs, work with transport medicine physicians who provide on-line medical control for Ornge paramedic teams and exposure to the training, teaching and administrative activities that happen behind the scenes. This elective opportunity is designed for medical trainees who wish to better understand how critical care transport organizations work, and the physician’s role within these organizations. Previous experience is not required. Electives are open to senior residents in anesthesia, emergency medicine, or critical care programs (PGY-3 or greater), or related fellowships. Trainees in family medicine programs with an interest in rural, remote or indigenous health are also encouraged to apply. Applications will be open for the 2024-25 academic year until May 15th 2024, remaining elective will be available afterwards on a first come, first serve basis. The full term will be four weeks. Due to variability in scheduling we are not able to accommodate trainees who have significant service requirements during the elective period to their home programs.
Available Positions: Limited availability. We cannot accommodate electives to our Toronto air base. Electives are available between August to May annually.
Application: Please complete the elective request form and submit via e-mail to fellowship@ornge.ca. We encourage applicants to rank multiple months of avialability and multiple locations.

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Program Summary: Ornge strives to improve health equity by improving access to care, particularly for vulnerable populations. We aim to partner with physicians in training interested in the medical care and health promotion of remote and indigenous Ontario communities. We hope to be part of a larger collaboration to provide a unique and bespoke learning environment.
Candidate: This opportunity is for resident physicians who have an in interest in health equity, remote medicine and indigenous healthcare.
Timeline: Timelines for this initiative is flexible.
Duration: Duration of this initiative is flexible.
Available Positions: Limited positions available.
Application: Applications are open on an ongoing basis, please email: fellowship@ornge.ca

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Program Summary: This Fellowship opportunity is designed for partnerships with international leaders in transport medicine including government organizations, air ambulances providers, the armed forces.
Candidate: Ornge welcomes applications for collaboration with the goal of advancing or developing critical care transport systems worldwide. This includes but is not limited to regional or national air or land ambulance systems, the armed forces, or governmental organizations.
Timeline: Timelines for this initiative is flexible.
Duration: Duration of this initiative is flexible.
Available Positions: Limited positions available.
Application: Please apply by filling out the elective request form (needs to be made).
Status: Applications are open on an ongoing basis, please email: fellowship@ornge.ca

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Meet Our Team

Our Fellowship team have experience working with critically injured or ill patients. They help provide insight for current and future appliants within the fellowship program.

Dr Joel Lockwood	Dr Joel Lockwood: Transport Medicine Physician and Fellowship Director Joel originally hails from sunny Medicine Hat, Alberta. After completing medical school at University of Calgary, he underwent FRCPC emergency medicine training at University of Toronto, including a six month secondment as a retrieval registrar in Sydney Australia with the Ambulance Service of New South Wales. Following his training he completed a six month rotation in the United Kingdom with London’s Air Ambulance. Since 2015 he has worked as an emergency physician and trauma team leader at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, and as a Transport Medicine Physician with Ornge.
Dr Johannes Vopelius	Dr Johannes Vopelius: Ornge Fellow Johannes completed his emergency medicine training in Bristol, England. During this time, he developed an interest in prehospital care and research. He completed a PhD on the subject of prehospital critical care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest at the University of the West of England, Bristol. During his training and doctoral research fellowship, Johannes gained experience in prehospital care with the Great Western Air Ambulance and completed the Diploma in Immediate Medical Care of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He is an associate editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. In 2021 Johannes became the first Fellow in Prehospital and Transport Medicine at Ornge and the University of Toronto.
Wayde Diamond	Wayde Diamond: Critical Care Flight Paramedic Wayde Diamond is a Critical Care Flight Paramedic and Field Educator with Ornge and a Fellowship Paramedic Lead based in the Toronto HEMS/land operations base. He has been involved in EMS since 1992 when he began his initial studies at Humber College in Etobicoke. After some time in the field he upgraded his paramedic credentials at the Center for Emergency Medicine in Pittsburgh and then through the Sunnybrook Base Hospital program where he achieved certification as a CCP(F). Over the years Wayde has worked in land based 911, fixed-wing, HEMS, ground critical care transport and Emergency Department in many parts of Ontario as well as the Middle East. Wayde is pursing his degree in Psychology at the University of Waterloo. His particular areas of interest are in high performance team dynamics and cognitive task management in high-stakes operations.
Dr. Sameer Mal	Dr Sameer Mal: Transport Medicine Physician Sameer Mal is Consultant Physician in Emergency Medicine and Trauma Team Leader at London Health Sciences Centre and also a Transport Medicine Physician with Ornge. He completed Medical School at McMaster University in 2008 and his Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Western Ontario in 2013, during which time he completed the SWORBHP EMS Fellowship. After completion of his Emergency Medicine training, he traveled to work as a prehospital Doctor in 2013-2014 with the New South Wales Ambulance Service-Sydney HEMS in Australia. After this, he also completed a secondment as a prehospital Doctor in 2018-2019 with London’s Air Ambulance in the United Kingdom. Since returning home to Canada, it's been a passion of his to use the local and international prehospital training he's received to help shape the delivery of prehospital critical care to the patients of Ontario.
Tara Williams	Tara Williams: Critical Care Flight Paramedic Tara Williams is a Critical Care Flight Paramedic & Field Educator with Ornge and a Fellowship Paramedic Lead in a high-volume, high-acuity HEMS & land transport base in Toronto. She began her initial studies at Centennial College in Toronto in 1994, before gaining field experience in various locations across Canada. Additional paramedic training occurred through the Advanced Life Support Institute in New Hampshire & the Michener Institute in Toronto before achieving certification as a CCP(F) through Sunnybrook Base Hospital. Tara is currently pursuing a Master of Paramedicine (Critical Care) through Charles Sturt University.

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