Nation's First Urgent Care Fellowship Seeks Applicants

The nation's first urgent care fellowship is opening in Cleveland. Graduates of accredited family medicine and internal medicine-pediatrics residencies may apply for the one-year fellowship.

FP Lee Resnick, M.D., a clinical instructor at the medical school at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, will direct the one-year fellowship. Its core competencies include orthopedics, occupational medicine, injury care, wound management, adult emergencies and urgencies, pediatric emergencies and urgencies, transfer issues, and office procedures.

The fellowship is a collaboration of the family medicine department of the medical school and University Hospitals of Cleveland; the Urgent Care Association of America, which is supporting the fellowship with a $30,000 grant; and University Primary and Specialty Care Practices Inc. in Cleveland.

Applications are being accepted on an open enrollment basis, so there is no deadline for applying, says Resnick. The program will accept up to two fellows a year, and they may begin the fellowship at their convenience (not necessarily at the same time). For more information, contact Resnick at (216) 896-1800 or lresnick@ucaoa.org.