University of Missouri Health Care and the MU School of Medicine are privileged to offer a postgraduate Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner Fellowship in Urgent Care.
MU Health Care has been successful with the Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant Fellowship and is expanding to offer a Fellowship for PA and FNP practitioners in the Urgent Care setting. Mizzou Urgent Care has expanded from Columbia, MO to Mexico, MO with opportunities to educate advanced practice providers to become comprehensive and efficient while focusing on patient centered care.
As Urgent Care fellows, PA/FNP participate in the following activities:
Intern Months (First half of fellowship)
- Urgent Care shifts at all locations
- ED shifts at Moberly ED, FastER, & P-pod shifts at UMH
- Off-service Rotations (POCUS, ENT, PEM, rural ED)
- Learning focus-core didactic content, mid-term exam
- Mixture of 10 & 12 hour shifts
- 14-16 shifts per month
- Supervisor staffing with Attending Physicians and staff APPs
Staffing Months (Second half of fellowship)
- Urgent Care shifts at all locations
- Gradual progression of autonomy
- Learning focus with additional focus on productivity
- Monthly quizzes & final exam
- On the APP schedule filling our active Urgent Care shifts
- 10 & 12 hour shifts
- 16-18 shifts per month
- Supervisor staffing with Attending Physicians and staff APP
Additional benefits provided through the Urgent Care PA/FNP Fellowship:
- Clinical focus with scheduled supplemental didactics built in throughout the program
- UMH on-site lectures and SIM labs held twice during Fellowship
- Submit 2 Case Write Ups during the course of the program
- Pre-admission exam, monthly quizzes, mid-term and final exam
- Monthly procedure log submission
- Monthly Chart Review with staff APP feedback
- Journal Club Attendance, boot camp lectures and SIM labs
- Quality Improvement Project to be completed and presented in the last quarter of fellowship
- Conference Attendance
- Scrubs/white coat provided
- CME stipend
- BLS/ACLS/PALS required to be kept current
