Education
The Acute and Urgent Care Fellowship offers a dynamic learning environment. Fellows will:
- Develop close working relationships with faculty members and mentors
- Receive hands-on experience in procedural and musculoskeletal diagnosis skills
- Treat a wide variety of pediatric patients with acute care needs
- Learn to recognize and manage acute pediatric illnesses and injuries, including stabilization and transfer to higher levels of care
- Rotate through pediatric subspecialty clinics
- Actively participate in journal club, educational conferences, faculty meetings, quality improvement initiatives and other scholarly activities
- Learn financial management, business planning and administrative duties necessary to the business of urgent care
Core Clinical Experience
Core clinical activities comprise 40% of fellowship time, while the rest is dedicated to scholarly, educational, research and didactic activities. Fellows are provided with direct supervision from experienced pediatric emergency medicine and acute care experts.
Subspecialty Rotations
- Burn Clinic: 2 weeks
- Child and Adolescent Protection Center: 1 week
- Dentistry: 2 weeks
- Dermatology: 1 week
- Ophthalmology: 1 week
- Orthopaedics/Sports Medicine: 4 weeks
- Point-of-Care Ultrasound: 2 weeks
- Procedures: 4 weeks
- Radiology: 2 weeks
- Research: 4 weeks
- Toxicology: 2 weeks
Didactics and Teaching
Administrative Initiatives
Academic Opportunities
Research
Apply to the Acute and Urgent Care Fellowship
There are up to two fellows each year in the Acute and Urgent Care Fellowship. Deadline for submission of all application materials is March 1, 2025; please contact us with questions.