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. 

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.

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.
  • 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)
  • 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 application submission

  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Contact information for 3 references who can speak to your clinical and interpersonal skills (faculty instructor, supervisor, physician or AP peer)
  • Official transcripts
  • Copies of BLS and ACLS certification (when applicable) 
  • Copies of board certification(s) and/or proof of "pending" status
  • Copy of state Advanced Practice license(s) and/or proof of "pending" status

 

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