ThedaCare 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 ThedaCare Physicians-Appleton Gateway, the APC Fellowship program facilitates an APC’s 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 ThedaCare 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.