Advanced Practice Provider Urgent Care Fellowship

Clinical

The fellow will have one on one preceptorship with selected Urgent Care Clinical Instructors. They will learn through hands-on care of patients by seeing patients and then discussing with preceptors to formulate appropriate care plans. The fellow will experience varying degrees of independence throughout the program ranging from presenting every patient early on to solo practice during your last month. 

You are expected to work 144 hours per month during the fellowship with 12 hours deducted for lectures and self-study time (132 hours in clinic). Daily chart reviews by your preceptor and an assigned Mentor are completed for real time feedback about your care documentation. Fellows will be required to write and present an article for possible publication in the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine based on a case they have seen during their clinical rotations.

Educational

You will have reading and web-based review assignments each week and weekly lectures/meetings will be held with the Program Directors or other leadership members to discuss assigned material. Most of the lectures are virtual with a few in-person lectures as well.

Fellows are required to complete the self-paced HIPPO Urgent Care and Pediatric Boot-camp courses in the first 5 months of the fellowship. This web-based program will be paid for by MedStar Urgent Care. You will be automatically enrolled in the course and receive your information at orientation. You will complete the urgent care assessment at the beginning of the program and then in the middle and end to see how much progress you are making.

Fellows will be occasionally required to attend monthly APP Emergency Medicine and Acute Care Post-Graduate Training lectures provided by MedStar Emergency Physicians (MEP) group during your training program.