Seattle Children's Emergency Department
Seattle Children’s Emergency Department (ED) serves as the primary location to learn pediatric emergency medicine.
Emergency Department Facts:
The Children's ED has a yearly census of 60,000 patients, providing 24-hour emergency care for children ages 21 years and younger and servicing the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho (WWAMI) region. It provides rapid access to the full Children's facilities and experts in more than 20 pediatric specialties.
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 months are spent learning primary patient care responsibilities, perfecting suturing and splinting techniques, and learning the essentials of sedation. Fellows then 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 (pediatric, family medicine, and emergency medicine) and medical students.
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.