Commencing from 2018-2019, Phoenix Children\u2019s began offering a new Pediatric Urgent Care Fellowship Program in Phoenix, Arizona. Given the increasing number of pediatric urgent care centers nationally, most pediatric residents graduate without adequate exposure to the urgent care experience and the career opportunities that it offers. This is the perfect opportunity for someone interested in acute care pediatrics including procedures but not the high acuity and complicated patients of a pediatric emergency room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
PCH offers a one-year program designed to train graduating residents (pediatrics and family practice) and general pediatricians to practice in this high-acuity, fast-paced environment. Their goal is to create experts in the emerging field of Pediatric Urgent Care Medicine who will become leaders in the field. Phoenix Children\u2019s has urgent care centers at four corners of the city, providing service care to over 50,000 patients per year combined. The fellows will be trained and supervised by general pediatricians and Pediatric Emergency Medicine faculty\/ fellows who all cover the urgent care sites. Physicians, from the entire spectrum of subspecialists, are on call for both urgent care as well as the emergency department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n