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)
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