Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellowship
About Our Fellowship
Meet some of our Child Abuse Pediatric fellows at the OU School of Community Medicine in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At the School of Community Medicine, we aim to recruit, retain, and develop a group of resident physicians of the highest caliber who will be shaping the future of healthcare and improving the health of our community. We work in partnership with the largest hospital systems in the area, Hillcrest Medical Center, Saint Francis Medical Center and Ascension St. John Medical Center, in addition to participating in multiple clinics throughout Tulsa. We are excited to meet you and look forward to getting to know you better. To contact our Office of Student Services and Admissions please call us at 918-660-3500 or email tulsascm@ouhsc.edu.
The OU School of Community Medicine is proudly accredited by the American Board of Pediatrics to offer a Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellowship, training elite pediatricians in the superpower of reducing harm to children.
Our team of physicians holds privileges at all local hospitals, including Saint Francis Children’s Hospital, where we provide expert care to children with injuries raising concerns of abuse or neglect. Our fellowship is based at the Children’s Advocacy Center, operated by the nonprofit Children’s Advocacy Network, which serves as a kind of ‘mission control’ for Tulsa County’s multidisciplinary team.
Fellows spend their time doing meaningful, hands-on work: examining children when there’s a concern for maltreatment and offering care at the Fostering Hope Clinic, which serves children in out-of-home placements. We aren’t just training physicians—we’re building the superheroes of child advocacy. These future leaders will shape the field at the local, state, and national levels.
Currently, our fellowship-trained child abuse pediatricians are the only ones in northeastern Oklahoma regularly seeing children at an advocacy center. Given the small number of specialists in this field, our team is essentially on call 24/7, because help for kids can’t wait for business hours. More trained physicians mean more kids helped, more awareness raised, and fewer coffee-fueled 3 a.m. consults per person.
The field took a leap in 2009 when the American Board of Pediatrics introduced a subspecialty certification in Child Abuse Pediatrics, turning a career path into an actual map: finish medical school, complete a general pediatrics residency, and then dive into a three-year fellowship to learn to recognize, treat, and advocate for children facing the unimaginable.
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has given its stamp of approval for the program to train up to two fellows per year. So, if you’re passionate about kids, skilled in medicine, and driven by a desire for justice, welcome aboard.
Christine Beeson, DO, FAAP
CAP Fellowship Program Director
