WEPPA’s collaboration with UNC and WakeMed for Emergency Medicine Residency training led to the creation of the UNC Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship, which WEPPA administers and funds. The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Department of Emergency Medicine received ACGME approval for a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship in October 2006. WEPPA physicians Dr. Scott Connelly and Dr. Linsay Lavin serve as the fellowship’s Program Director and Associate Program Director. Dr. Connelly is a 2013 graduate of the program. The program hosts four fellows at any given time, including those trained in Emergency Medicine for a 2-year track and those trained in Pediatrics for a 3-year track.

Due to its robust volume, the fellowship’s primary clinical site is the Children’s Emergency Department at WakeMed Health and Hospitals in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Children’s Emergency Department at WakeMed sees over 40,000 pediatric patients/year with largely undifferentiated pathology. Faculty trained in emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine staff the WakeMed Health & Hospitals Pediatric Emergency Department and serve as dedicated teaching faculty. In addition to their time at WakeMed, fellows rotate in specialty pediatric services (i.e., PICU) at UNC Hospital and have the opportunity to do a toxicology rotation at Carolinas Poison Control Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. In addition to the required ACGME rotations, the fellows enjoy an enriching didactic program, including a monthly disciplinary simulation exercise in a state-of-the-art high-fidelity simulation center.