For all Inquiries, please email us at [email protected]
Hours of Operation
Thursday-Saturday | 7 p.m. – 3 a.m.
What Campus EMS Does
Medical Response
- Serves as a first-responder agency and provides patient care at the EMT-B level to help those experiencing medical emergencies on UNC Main Campus
- Stabilizes and prepares patients to be transported for an average of 9.5 minutes before transporting unit arrival
- Average response time of less than 5 minutes in 2024 operations
- Members ride on neighboring county ambulances to experience different EMS systems and a wide-variety of call types throughout the semester
- Assists UNC Campus Health in patient care throughout the various Campus Health clinics
- Work as vaccinators with Campus Health in the Student Stores Pharmacy & Orange County
- Stabilize and treat patients during mass casualty incidents with Orange County EMS including Halloween, NCAA events, etc.
Campus Outreach
Campus EMS helps educate and train students on life-saving skills and public heath issues including:
- Educational tables at Emergency Preparedness events
- Offers hands-on Narcan, CPR, Stop the Bleed, and First Aid training to campus organizations
- Provides free bystander CPR classes alongside UNC HeartSafe to maintain Carolina’s status as a HeartSafe campus
Please email [email protected] for outreach inquiries, with the exception of CPR and First Aid courses.
- Register online for FREE HeartSafe Bystander CPR and First Aid education courses. All questions regarding CPR classes can be directed to [email protected].
- UNC Campus EMS is unable to provide event standby services at this time. If you are looking for EMS standby services for campus events, we recommend contacting South Orange Rescue Squad (SORS) for assistance.
Campus EMS Leaders
Allyson Smith
Operations Officer
Samhitha Pudipeddi
Logistics Officer
Katherine McDaniel
Community Outreach
Donations
UNC Campus EMS is funded by UNC Campus Health as well as through generous donations from our community. Any and all donations to our mission are greatly appreciated! You may use this link to make a donation.
UNC Campus EMS would like to give a special thank you to UNC Parents Council for their donation to assist with crucial start-up equipment. We greatly appreciate the UNC Parents Council’s support of UNC Campus EMS in our pursuit of service for the Carolina community.
Join us!
Interested in joining Campus EMS? Applications are currently open! Incoming freshmen and sophomores who will have their EMT certification at the start of the Fall 2025 semester are welcome to apply at the link below.
Before applying, consider attending one of our interest meetings or watching a recorded interest meeting to learn more about our agency, our application process, and to meet some of the current members. Please sign up for an interest meeting date that works best for you. Follow us on Instagram (@unc.ems) for updates on our current application cycle.
Campus EMS applications are currently closed, and will open at the beginning of the Fall 2025 semester.