PA Fellowship Program - Appleton, WI

Theda Care Froedtert, a highly successful northeast Wisconsin non-profit health system, is proud to offer an Advanced Practice Clinician Fellowship Program designed to support Physician Assistants as they transition into practice.

Housed within Theda Care Physicians-Appleton Gateway, the APC Fellowship program facilitates an APCs transition to practice by promoting teaching, maturation, and lifelong learning. This program includes the opportunity for direct 1:1 teaching with a faculty member (MD, NP, PA) for a 12-month program that includes evidenced-based learning, advanced concepts in coding, and population health. The learner will complete the 12-month program with an expanded clinical experience, the ability to critically assess self-knowledge, and access to evidenced-based point-of-care resources.

This position does come with a two-year employment commitment with Theda Care post completion.

Practice Highlights:

• Full-time opportunity to practice outpatient-based Family Medicine
• 1.0 FTE consists of 36 patient contact hours plus 4 hours of dedicated administrative time weekly
• M-F: four-day workweek of 9.5-hour shifts and one 4-hour half day of admin or didactic time
• Strong organizational infrastructure with nursing, administrative, and specialty support
• Epic EMR utilized system-wide with integrated DAX copilot and Dragon dictation tools

Key Accountabilities:

• Learn evidence-based best practices in chronic disease management and primary care.
• Learn principles of population health, network integrity, and resource stewardship.
• Complete core curriculum, including a 12-month didactic series, pre and post-test probability concepts, and motivational interviewing.
• Optimization of clinic workflow to better achieve work-life balance.
• Participation in current and future process improvement and feedback and serving as an ambassador for future APC Fellowship programming.
• Receive and incorporate faculty and APC Task Force feedback to become a stronger clinician and life-long learner with a growth mindset in a dynamic and changing healthcare environment.
• Opportunity for learning and prescribing medication-assisted therapy for substance use disorders.
• Participate in quarterly learning days that also serve as continuing medical education. These experiences include hands-on learning and leadership skills development.

Qualifications:

• Completion of master-level degree minimum as an Advanced Practice Clinician (i.e., Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner).
• No prior clinical experience is required, however, the ability to take feedback and have a growth mindset is necessary.
• APC degree and certification.
• Active State of Wisconsin Medical/Prescriber license and active DEA licensure.