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Seattle Children’s Hospital Emergency Department serves as the primary location to learn pediatric emergency medicine.
In April 2013, the Emergency Department (ED) moved to the new wing of the hospital called Building Hope. This state-of-the-art facility nearly doubled the size of the ED and is designed for providing the best possible experience for patients and families.
Emergency Department Facts:
- Yearly census of 45,000 patients
- 24-hour emergency care for children ages 21 years and younger
- Rapid access to the full facilities and staff, including experts in more than 20 pediatric specialties
- Hospital services the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho region.
- View a video about Building Hope.
Each fellow spends an average of 24 months learning pediatric emergency medicine in our department over 3 years.
- As a first year fellow, the first couple months are spent learning primary patient care responsibilities, perfecting suturing and splinting techniques, and learning the essentials of sedation. In the latter part of the year, fellows transition to a preceptor role and begin to focus on flow in addition to clinical care.
- Subsequently, fellows combine primary patient responsibility and supervision of residents and medical students. Residents at Children’s include pediatric, family medicine, and emergency medicine.
- The final year of fellowship emphasizes resident supervision, management of critically ill patients, management of ED patient flow, and direction of ED codes with the guidance of ED faculty. Educational opportunities include weekly fellow and faculty led education sessions, bedside learning, and mock codes with and without Simbaby simulation.