The National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation (NCEMSF) is a non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

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 founded to promote and advocate for campus based emergency medical services

Emergency medical services

Emergency medical services are a type of emergency service dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care and/or transport to definitive care, to patients with illnesses and injuries which the patient, or the medical practitioner, believes constitutes a medical emergency...

. The organization was founded in 1993 with the goal of facilitating the exchange of information amongst collegiate EMS agencies. In 1994, NCEMSF held its first annual conference, which have since become a cornerstone of the organization.

History

In the early 1990s, with the widespread use of computers linked via the precursor to the Internet, e-mail communication among campus emergency responders was commonplace. For readers of the emergency services Usenet group (misc.emerg-services) and its related e-mail list (EMERG-L), there was occasionally a thread about campus-related EMS. But frequently, discussions on the topic of campus EMS were shunned as inappropriate or obscure. As a result, the campus EMS groups that existed were isolated since there was no good forum where they could openly communicate with each other.

In 1993, in response to a need for information exchange among campus EMS groups, the National Collegiate EMS Foundation (NCEMSF) was established. A loosely associated nationwide group of campus responders was formally brought together by Jon Diorio of Georgetown University (Washington, DC) and others.

Filling a niche, NCEMSF quickly grew. In April 1994 NCEMSF held its first conference at Georgetown University. Representatives from over twenty campus EMS organizations spent the weekend of April 8-10 learning about EMS, meeting each other, and having a great time.

Annual conferences every year since 1994 have been a cornerstone of NCEMSF. Providing the networking and information exchange among campus emergency responders remains one of our main goals.

Annual Conference

Since 1994, the NCEMSF has held a yearly conference hosted by a member college or university.

Year	Month/Day	Location	Host School(s)	Notes
2012	February 24–26	Baltimore, MD
2011	February 25–27	Philadelphia, PA
2010	February 26–28	Baltimore, MD	Johns Hopkins University
2009	February 27 - March 1	Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....	The George Washington University & Georgetown University
2008	February 29 - March 2	Philadelphia, PA	University of Pennsylvania, Rowan University, Villanova	15th Anniversary
2007	February 23–25	Baltimore, MD	UMBC & Johns Hopkins Univ.
2006	February 24–26	Boston, MA	Brandeis Univ., Boston Univ., Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., and Tufts Univ.
2005	February 25–27	Philadelphia, PA	Villanova Univ. & Ursinus College
2004	February 27–29	Baltimore, MD	Johns Hopkins Emergency Response Organization (HERO)
2003	February 21–23	Washington, DC	George Washington University
2002	November 8–10	Dayton, OH	University of Dayton	Regional Conference
2002	February 8–10	Long Island, NY	SUNY Stony Brook
2001	February 9–11	Rochester, NY	Rochester Institute of Technology RIT Ambulance RIT Ambulance is a New York State Certified Ambulance Corps, run as a student organization at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The ambulance serves the entire Rochester Institute of Technology campus and portions of surrounding Henrietta, New York....
2000	February 11–13	Newark, Delaware Newark, Delaware Newark is an American city in New Castle County, Delaware, west-southwest of Wilmington. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the city is 31,454. Newark is the home of the University of Delaware.- History :...	University of Delaware University of Delaware Emergency Care Unit The University of Delaware Emergency Care Unit is a registered student organization at the University of Delaware, which provides emergency medical services to the University of Delaware campus. UDECU has approximately 50 members, all of which are volunteers and students at the University of...
1999	February 12–14	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse University
1998	April 17–19	Hartford, CT	Trinity College / University of Hartford
1997	June 10–14	Huntington, WV	Marshall University
1996	October 11–14	Troy, NY	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1996	March 22–24	New York, NY	Fordham University	Regional Conference
1995	November 3–5	Philadelphia, PA	Villanova University
1994	April 8–10	Washington, DC	Georgetown University

Membership

The following agencies are active NCEMSF members:

• Alfred University: Alfred University Rescue Squad (AURS), Alfred, NY
• American University
  American University
  American University is a private, Methodist, liberal arts, and research university in Washington, D.C. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892 as "The American University", which was approved by President Benjamin Harrison on February 24, 1893...
  
  : American University First Response Team (AUFRT), Washington, DC
• Amherst College: Amherst College Emergency Medical Services (ACEMS), Amherst, MA
• Georgetown University
  Georgetown University
  Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
  
  : Georgetown Emergency Response Medical Service (GERMS), Washington, DC
• Brown University
  Brown University
  Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
  
  : Brown University EMS (BEMS), Providence, RI
• College of Charleston
  College of Charleston
  The College of Charleston is a public, sea-grant and space-grant university located in historic downtown Charleston, South Carolina, United States...
  
  : College of Charleston EMS (COFCEMS), Charleston, SC
• Rice University
  Rice University
  William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
  
  : Rice University EMS (REMS), Houston, TX
• Syracuse University
  Syracuse University
  Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
  
  : Syracuse University ambulance
• University of Delaware
  University of Delaware
  The university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...
  
  : University of Delaware Emergency Care Unit (UDECU)
  University of Delaware Emergency Care Unit
  The University of Delaware Emergency Care Unit is a registered student organization at the University of Delaware, which provides emergency medical services to the University of Delaware campus. UDECU has approximately 50 members, all of which are volunteers and students at the University of...
  
  , Newark, DE
• Carnegie Mellon University
  Carnegie Mellon University
  Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
  
  : Carnegie Mellon University Emergency Medical Service (CMUEMS), Pittsburgh, PA