Emergency Medicine Interest Group (EMIG) Grantees

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Congratulations to this year's grantees!

SAEMF recognizes the valuable role of emergency medicine medical student interest groups (EMIGs), and awards $500 grants to support these groups' educational activities. EMIG grant goals are to:

  • Promote growth of emergency medicine education at the medical student level
  • Identify new educational methodologies advancing undergraduate education in emergency medicine
  • Support educational endeavors of an EMIG Learn more about these grants.

We applaud the following grantees for being awarded these important educational grants for their programs:

Buscher EMIG 2024Scott 2024 EMIG


Elora G. Buscher and Roland Scott 
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons for “Intro to Emergency Medicine Workshop” 

Fefjar 2024 EMIG

Donald Fejfar 
Harvard Medical School for “Trauma and Triage: A Simulation-based Skills Building Workshop for the Developing Physician” 

Funk EMIG 2024

Callum Funk 
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for “JH EMIG Stop the Bleed” 

Koochekpour 2024 EMIG

Rose Koochekpour 
University of Florida College of Medicine for “UF Simulation-Based Case Competition” 

Shimanski 2024 EMIG

Isabel Shimanski
University of Utah for “EM LEADS Program Development” 

Medical students: the 2025 application deadline is Tuesday, January 31, 2025. Apply for an EMIG grant today!

Your charitable gift of $500 will help to make one EMIG possible -- donate today.