Overview
The Dartmouth Health Postgraduate Fellowship Programs offer Advanced Practice Providers an intensive 12-month experience of advanced training. Your training will be comprised of didactic and clinical curriculums that will occur concomitantly.
Our Postgraduate Advanced Practice Provider Fellowships give you the opportunity to:
- Further refine critical thinking and highly marketable skills to a specialized patient population.
- Provide high-quality care to a wide variety of patients in the chosen specialty.
- Be part of an organization dedicated to training the next generation of health care providers.
- Learn and work alongside colleagues in all areas of healthcare who are committed to team-based patient care.
- Access MD, APP, and other staff participating in world-class research, teaching, and leadership through Dartmouth College, TDI, the Value Institute and Geisel School of Medicine, Biomedical and Science Libraries, DHMC Patient Safety Training Center (PSTC), gross anatomy lab, POCUS Training.
- Earn a competitive annual stipend, full and comprehensive benefits, and continuing education credits are available at no cost by participating in and attending lectures, conferences, grand rounds, and journal club.
- Live in a diverse social, cultural and artistic community in a Northern New England setting that offers a wide range of year-round outdoor recreational activities with easy access to major metropolitan areas.
The Critical Care Advanced Practice Provider (CCAPP) Fellowship Program is a 12-month postgraduate training program focused on preparing you for a successful career in critical care medicine. Your training will include parallel clinical and didactic curriculums which will provide you with a solid foundation in the management of critically ill medical and surgical patients.
The mission of the CCAPP Fellowship is to prepare clinically outstanding, certified Physician Assistants and Acute Care Nurse Practitioners to practice critical care medicine as members of a multi-professional team with a high degree of professionalism, competency and curiosity.
The vision of the CCAPP Fellowship is to offer:
- A diverse critical care education
- A strong proctored clinical experience
- Procedural education
- Didactic curriculum aimed at fostering critical thinking, leadership and lifelong learning in the practice of multidisciplinary critical care medicine.
The values and guiding principles of the CCAPP Fellowship include:
- Evidence-based training in critical care medicine.
- Competency-based, learner-oriented curriculum centered around the clinical and systems based knowledge, skills, and professional conduct required to provide high quality care to the critically ill patient.
- Creation of a collegial, team centered Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) or Physician Assistant (PA)
- Development of a consistent, reliable ACNP/PA who possesses the basic knowledge and skills in critical care medicine needed to provide quality care
- To create and sustain an ACNP/PA training program incorporating multiple ICU settings
- Compassionate, ethical treatment for the critically ill
- Development and involvement of a supportive and knowledgeable CCAPP Residency faculty
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is located in the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire; a diverse social, cultural, and artistic community that offers a wide range of year-round outdoor recreational activities with easy access to major metropolitan areas. We look forward to learning about you and what you will bring to our program and our community!
Curriculum:
The Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship in Critical Care is a one-year program focused on providing the novice nurse practitioner or physician assistant with further education on caring for the hospitalized patient. Residents will be guided through the foundations of critical care medicine focusing on current evidence-based practice fostering curiosity, independent education, and a structure for lifelong learning. Residents will complete clinical, didactic and procedural components through rotations in ICU, skills and electives.
Website:
Additional details about the program, curriculum, schedule, and application process can be found at: https://www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/app-postgrad/ccapp
Accreditation Status:
The ARC-PA has granted Accreditation-Clinical Postgraduate Program status to the Critical Care Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship Program sponsored by Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.
Admission Requirements:
To be considered for admittance to the Critical Care Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship Program, candidates must meet the following requirements:
- Be eligible to obtain an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) or PA license in the state of New Hampshire once admitted to the program
- Be a graduate of an accredited Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) program or an accredited master's degree Physician Assistant (PA) program
- Be eligible to pass (or have passed) the ANCC or NCCPA certification
- Have ANCC or NCCPA certification by matriculation date
- Be eligible for RN licensure in the state of New Hampshire
- Be eligible for Federal DEA Registration
- Participate in a personal interview on the campus of DHMC (pending status of COVID-19 pandemic)
- Complete the formal online application process, if asked to participate in a personal interview
- Participate in a criminal background check and urine drug screen as part of the pre-employment requirements for final selected candidates
Any offer of acceptance is contingent on final candidates successfully completing the standard DHMC pre-employment criminal background check and health screening and clinical credentialing process before matriculation.
How to Apply:
Applications are due by February 23, 2025 at 11:59 pm EST
Applications for Postgraduate APP Fellowship Programs must include the following:
- A recent copy of your curriculum vitae (CV)/resume (including school name and GPA)
- A brief personal statement describing your interest in pursuing a career in critical care (500 to 1,000 words)
- Three letters of reference on letterhead
- These can be submitted by you with your other application materials or directly by your references to critcareapp.residency@hitchcock.org.
- Letters can be addressed to the Critical Care team.
- If you are currently enrolled in an APRN academic degree program or a PA program, one reference must be from your program or medical director.
The anticipated start date is Fall 2025 (the exact date will be coordinated with selected candidates based on your licensing and credentialing timeline).
Dartmouth Health is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.
