A competency-based educational program focused on urgent care leadership, scholarship, digital health, clinical operations, and quality improvement.
Program at a Glance
Founding members shape the academic standards, curriculum, and research agenda for the field — and receive lifetime recognition as architects of the specialty.
All tracks include structured milestone evaluations, competency-based assessments, case-based reviews, procedure tracking logs, simulation exercises, scholarly activity review, and SAUCM-developed educational assessment tools.
From application to active membership in four steps — with a dedicated onboarding contact for institutional applicants.
Three structured pathways Three structured pathways grounded in competency-based medical education principles such as ECG competency. Open to MD, DO, NP, and PA-C clinicians. Accessible, Academic Leadership Track.
Hear from the clinicians and institutions shaping urgent care medicine's academic future.
"SAUCM fills a critical gap. Urgent care has been practicing without an academic home for too long. Being a founding institution means we help define what that home looks like."
"The UCC platform alone is worth membership. Our clinicians now have point-of-care decision support that was purpose-built for urgent care, not adapted from emergency medicine."
"As a fellowship program director, SAUCM gives me a peer network, a curriculum scaffold, and a journal to publish our outcomes research. That is three problems solved at once."
"Our health system joined because we believe urgent care medicine deserves the same academic infrastructure that emergency medicine built over the last four decades. SAUCM is building it."
Help establish the academic standards and research infrastructure for urgent care medicine.
Apply for Founding Membership