VUMC Advanced Practice Fellowship

Vanderbilt University Medical Center Advanced Practice Fellowship Program

Focused on facilitating successful transitions to practice and enabling APRNs/PAs to immerse themselves in specialty practice settings, Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Advanced Practice (AP) Fellowship program provides post-graduate clinical and educational experiences. 

Within a protected learning environment, the fellowship prepares the new graduate or an experienced APRN/PA to provide quality, evidence-based patient care within a diverse and complex healthcare environment. The core fellowship curriculum will include evidence-based and practice-based learning, quality outcome identification and measurement, leadership and practice model development, organizational enculturation, and professional development. The practice-specific curriculum will include direct patient care, simulation training, and didactic courses on topics related to the patient population. Currently, fellowships are being offered in the following practice specialties: solid organ transplant, urology, and colorectal surgery.   

Fellows are expected to be engaged and active participants in their educational journey and will evaluate their progress through collaborative appraisals and self-reflection and identify and resolve educational and experiential gaps.

Future fellowships in other advanced practice areas are currently in development.

Program Goals:

• Provision of a focused learning experience that enables the APRN/PA to develop and refine essential specialty-specific clinical and critical thinking skills promoting top-of-license practice
• Immersion into an environment of collaborative multidisciplinary care that assures cost-effective, quality, patient-centered care
• Expanded incorporation of evidenced-based practice into care and utilization of improvement processes to enhance quality and care delivery processes

Eligibility Criteria

• Master’s or higher degree 
• Eligible for or active national board certification in one of the following                                                             
• Eligible for/or unencumbered Tennessee Board of Nursing RN /APN or Physician Assistant license
• Eligible for or active DEA certificate
• Satisfactory background check
• Ability to work 40 hours per week
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification
• Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification (may be required for some Fellowships)

 Applications

• Please apply VUMC Advanced Practice Fellowships...(search " Advanced Practice Fellowship")                                                                                            

  • Certified Nursing Midwife -  application period- Closed  

  • Colorectal Surgery - application period- Closed

  • Medical & Surgical Weight Loss - applications - Closed 

  • Oncology:

    • Hematology - Applications - Closed

    • Surgical - Applications - Closed

  • Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (O-HNS) - Applications - Closed(Please e-mail otoappfellowship@vumc.org  for application information)

  • Psychiatric Mental Health:

    • Child/Adolescent - Applications - Closed   

  • Solid Organ Transplant - Applications-  Open

  • Urology - Applications - Closed                                                                                                                                              

Documents to accompany the completed application

• Curriculum Vitae
• Contact information for 3 references who can speak to your clinical and interpersonal skills (faculty instructor, supervisor, physician or AP peer)

Documents to prepare for later submission

• Official transcripts
• Copies of BLS and ACLS certification (when applicable) 
• Copies of board certification(s) and/or proof of "pending" status
• Copy of state nursing license(s) and/or proof of "pending" status

Would you like to know more about the Vanderbilt Health AP Fellowships?

Please email buffy.lupear@vumc.org for more information