Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship Program
The OSF HealthCare Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship is a 12-month transition-to-practice program for new nurse practitioners and physician assistants. We mentor advanced practice providers as they transition into practice and prepare them to become health care leaders.
Our fellowship has tracks in Primary Care, Urgent Care, General Pediatrics, Neurology, Adult Critical Care, Neonatal Critical Care, Pediatric Acute Care, and Emergency Medicine.
Our goal is to grow the novice advanced practice provider in both clinical and professional areas and provide mentoring support during the transition to clinical practice.
I am forever grateful for the opportunity to have completed a fellowship program. I can't imagine being a new grad without my cohort and all of my mentors throughout the fellowship."
APP Fellowship Alum
About the APP Fellowship Program
The APP Fellowship program is designed to support you in your career growth journey. Through completing the APP Fellowship program, graduates are thoroughly prepared to succeed in their future medical career.
Some of the ways this program is unique include:
- OSF HealthCare APP Fellowship is accredited with distinction as an Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship Program by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation in Practice Transition Programs
- Is a HRSA grant award winner
- Has more than a 97% graduation rate
- Offers opportunities for permanent positions within OSF HealthCare upon program completion (Current placement rate: 100%)
Want to learn where you fit into the OSF APP Fellowship Program?
The APP Fellowship program gives you a wide range of professional growth opportunities in your medical career. Your program and employment benefits as an APP Fellow include:
- Dynamic and engaging curriculum with lectures, case studies, procedural skills labs, simulations and more
- Faculty-precepted clinical training
- Ongoing faculty and peer mentoring
- Protected learning time for in-seat education and interprofessional learning at Jump Trading Simulation & Education Center
- Structured competency evaluations
- Specialty rotations
As an OSF Mission Partner, you will have a full-time salaried position with full benefits. OSF HealthCare is committed to being your Employer of Choice. Because everyone hired by OSF is called to the same Mission to serve with the greatest care and love, our employees are united as Mission Partners.
As an OSF Mission Partner, you enjoy a robust benefits package. In addition to your full-time position salary, your benefits include:
- Accrual-based vacation and holiday time, well-being and sick time, and paid caregiver time off
- Annual team-based incentives
- Competitive compensation
- Education assistance
- Health, life and dental insurance
- Paid occurrence-based malpractice insurance, continuing medical education and association membership dues
- Relocation assistance
- 401k match
APP Fellowships Offered
The OSF HealthCare APP Fellowship program was founded in 2016 with one fellowship track. Since then, we have added additional inpatient and outpatient tracks. Each track is divided into two models: precepted and mentored.
During the precepted model, you're with a dedicated preceptor and share a patient panel. The mentored model allows you to have your own patient panel with increased autonomy, while still having support. The precepted model usually lasts for 6-8 months before you move into the mentored model.
Review the options below for more details, including links to apply for a fellowship position.
Outpatient
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Primary Care
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Details
- Hours: Typically, 8 a.m.-5p.m. Monday-Friday with limited holidays and weekends
- Clinical practice in different clinics: Digital medicine, rural practices, specialty practice rotations, traditional primary care, underserved population locations and urgent care for experience in a variety of office settings
- HRSA Advanced Nurse Practitioner Fellowship grant funding for focused education in rural setting, behavioral health and maternal-fetal medicine
- Specialty rotations in cardiology, neurology, urology, physical therapy, behavioral health, pulmonology and gastroenterology
- Designated in-seat didactic day every week with lectures, skills, case studies and simulations
- Multiple practice locations throughout Central Illinois
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Urgent Care
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Details
- Hours: Two 12s and two 8s for first half of fellowship; three 12s plus 4 hours for second half of fellowship
- Clinical practice in different clinics: Concierge urgent care, rural and community primary care, specialty practice rotations and digital medicine for experience in a variety of office settings
- Designated in-seat didactic day each week for the first two months and then every other week for the rest of the year with lectures, skills, case studies and simulations
- Multiple practice locations throughout Central Illinois
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General Pediatrics
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Details
- Hours: Typically, 8 a.m.-5p.m. Monday-Friday with limited holidays and weekends
- Clinical practice in a variety of settings: Pediatric practices, hospitalist shadowing, specialty practice rotations and underserved medical fairs
- Specialty rotations in pediatric orthopedic, gastroenterology, cardiology, pediatric surgery and neurology
- HRSA Advanced Nurse Practitioner Fellowship grant funding for focused education in rural setting, behavioral health and maternal-fetal medicine
- Designated in-seat didactic day every week with lectures, skills, case studies and simulations
- Multiple practice locations throughout Central Illinois
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Neurology
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- Hours:Typically 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday with limited holiday and weekends
- Clinical practice: Outpatient neurology office in Peoria, with possible rotations in Galesburg and/or Bloomington
- Rotations in neuro-muscular, Multiple sclerosis, general neurology, movement disorder, epilepsy, neuro-vestibular, headache and stroke
- Designated in-seat didactic day every week with lectures, skills, case studies and simulations
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Inpatient
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Adult Critical Care
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Details
- This track is designed to give the fellow a foundation in adult acute care by utilizing multiple different ICU services which will allow the fellow to apply for a permanent position in any of the adult acute care settings.
- Hours: Three 12s and one 8 with weekend, nights and holiday rotation
- Clinical practice in a variety of settings: Critical care services, neuro ICU, trauma and AHU/CVICU
- Fellows are an integral part of the patient's care team which also includes attendings, medical fellows, APPs, medical residents and medical students
- Greater options when looking for a permanent position because of experience in a variety of rotations
- Designated in-seat didactic day every week with lectures, skills, case studies and simulations
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Emergency Medicine
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Details
- This track rotates fellows through both community-based emergency rooms as well as level 1 trauma centers to provide exposure to a variety of patient populations as well as acuity levels
- Hours: A combination of 8- and 12-hour shifts, requiring rotations on nights, weekends, and holidays
- Clinical practice in a variety of settings: multiple ERs with specialty rotations in cardiology, radiology, ortho, pulmonology, and more
- Opportunities to provide care to patients in community rotations and interprofessional learning with medical students and residents
- Designated in-seat didactic day every week with simulation, skills training, case-based learning, and specialty speakers
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Neonatal Critical Care
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Details
- Hours: Two 12s and two 8s with mixed shifts, including nights, weekends, holidays and 24-hour shifts
- Clinical practice in a variety of settings: OSF HealthCare Children's Hospital of Illinois, OSF HealthCare Saint Joseph Medical Center Level II Nursery, multiple specialty services – Pediatric Surgery, Newborn Nursery and Neurodevelopmental follow-up clinic
- Fellows are an integral part of the patient's care team which also includes attendings, medical fellows, APPs, medical residents and medical students
- Designated in-seat didactic day every week with lectures, skills, case studies and simulations
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Pediatric Acute Care
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Details
- This track is designed to give the fellow a foundation in acute care by utilizing both the Pediatric ICU service and the pediatric surgery service which will allow the fellow to apply for a permanent position in any of the pediatric acute care settings
- Hours: Two 12s and two 8s with weekend, nights and holiday rotation
- Clinical practice in a variety of settings: 16-bed mixed ICU with both CVICU and medical services, general pediatric units, specialty rotations and ELSO Gold Center of Excellence
- Specialty rotations in cath lab, CV surgery, Almost Home Kids, respiratory therapy, radiology, and sedation team
- Fellows are an integral part of the patient's care team which also includes attendings, medical fellows, APPs, medical residents and medical students
- Designated in-seat didactic day every week with lectures, skills, case studies and simulations
Grant and Guiding Principles
The fellowship has four guiding principles:
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Connect advanced practice professionals with experienced OSF HealthCare APRNs and physicians, who are champions for our Mission and provide a supportive, challenging learning environment to prepare the next generation of health care providers. - Serve our patients and their families with quality, evidence-based care in a cost-effective manner across all our OSF communities.
- Share our successes and opportunities with the health care community to improve care for patients locally and nationally.
- Be Accountable to deliver Key Results to the OSF Ministry and the patients we serve.
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