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Atrium Health Advanced Practice Provider Fellowships

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Atrium Health Center for Advanced Practice Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Fellowship

Atrium Health’s centralized APP Fellowship model connects four distinct geographic regions into a unified learning network, leveraging more than a decade of fellowship experience to deliver shared educational opportunities, expertise, and resources across the enterprise. Through regional collaboration, fellows benefit from high-quality clinical rotations, mentored professional development, systems-based practice immersion, and scholarly activities that cultivate confident, capable, and well-rounded advanced practice providers.

Due to the pace that healthcare and modalities of healthcare delivery are growing and changing, we are seeking dynamic, inquisitive, hardworking and committed NPs and PAs eager to serve the populations and communities who seek care at Atrium Health. Our primary training location is Charlotte, NC with post-Fellowship employment eligibility at any of our enterprise locations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, or Alabama.

We have designed a clinical program that symbiotically combines specialty-specific rotations and didactic curriculum with enterprise-specific professional resources that culminate in the development of diverse and advanced skillsets. Our graduates are highly competitive for employment and thrive within Atrium Health. The APP Fellowship experiences derived from quality clinical rotations, mentored professional activities, immersion into systems-based practice and experience with clinical scholarly work; allows the fellowship program to serve as an ideal pipeline of highly trained APPs across any of our geographic locations. We remain committed to training and retaining our graduates wherever and whenever possible.

Goals of the Fellowship:

Enhance the clinical knowledge and expertise of our APPs needed to optimize practice and demonstrate improved clinical outcomes within Atrium Health
Serve as an immersion in specialty-specific experiences that prepare APPs for critical thinking above the level received in formal education
Expand our APPs knowledge of evidenced-based practice, basic research techniques, guideline development and quality improvement initiatives, aimed to improve patient care outcomes within Atrium Health

The CAP Difference

An innovative 12-month curriculum composed of live didactics, online classrooms, simulation, proctored invasive procedures and mentored clinical experiences

Unique PA and NP collaboration
Highly competitive stipend and benefits
Professional development and mentoring
Access to system-wide education and conferences
Multidisciplinary approach to patient care
Expertise in managing the office setting
Participation in evidence-based quality improvement
Complementary CME opportunities
Development of a robust referral network

Tracks - We offer various medical and surgical specialties across FOUR different cities: Charlotte, NC, Winston-Salem, NC, Macon, GA, and Chicago, IL

Atrium Health Behavioral Health Fellowship in Charlotte, NC	Atrium Health Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship in Charlotte, NC	Atrium Health Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship in Charlotte, NC	Atrium Health Critical Care Medicine Fellowship in Charlotte, NC	Atrium Health Development-Behavioral Pediatrics Fellowship in Charlotte, NC
Atrium Health Emergency Medicine Fellowship in Charlotte, NC	Atrium Health Gastroenterology Fellowship in Charlotte, NC	Atrium Health Hematology and Oncology Fellowship in Charlotte, NC	Atrium Health Adult Hospitalist - Adult Fellowship in Charlotte, NC	Atrium Health Hospitalist - Pediatric Fellowship in Charlotte, NC
Atrium Health Neonatal Critical Care Fellowship in Charlotte, NC	Atrium Health Neurology Fellowship in Charlotte, NC	Atrium Health Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Fellowship in Charlotte, NC	Atrium Health Primary Care Fellowship in Charlotte, NC	Atrium Health Rural Primary Care Fellowship in Charlotte, NC
Atrium Health Surgical Specialties Fellowship in Charlotte, NC	Atrium Health Trauma, Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Charlotte, NC	Atrium Health Urgent Care Fellowship in Charlotte, NC	Atrium Health Women's Health Fellowship in Charlotte, NC
Atrium Health Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship in Winston-Salem, NC	Atrium Health Critical Care Medicine Fellowship in Winston-Salem, NC	Atrium Health Dermatology Fellowship in Winston-Salem, NC	Atrium Health Hematology/Oncology Fellowship in Winston-Salem, NC	Atrium Health Neonatal Critical Care Fellowship in Winston-Salem, NC
Atrium Health Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Fellowship in Winston-Salem, NC	Atrium Health Pediatric Medical Specialties Fellowship in Winston-Salem, NC	Atrium Health Primary Care Fellowship in Winston-Salem, NC	Atrium Health Surgical Specialties Fellowship in Winston-Salem, NC
Atrium Health Critical Care Medicine Fellowship in Macon, GA	Atrium Health Critical Care Medicine Fellowship in Chicago, IL

Contact: PA Fellowship Director (Melissa.Ricker@atriumhealth.org)

Additional Info

Program Start Month : April, November

Duration : 12 Months

Max Class Size (per Track) : 4

Application Deadline : March 15th (for Fall Cohort), September 15th (for Spring Cohort)

Degree Awarded : Certification & DMSc

Salary Range : $74, 880

Academic Certificate Awarded Upon Completion : Yes

Membership Type

INSTITUTIONAL MEMBER

Contacts

Primary

Melissa Bridges

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