Primary Care Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Fellowship

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s Primary Care Fellowship in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, is a 12-month postgraduate program dedicated to enhancing the development of early career nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants.

Recognizing that APPs are increasingly utilized in an outpatient care setting, our program’s mission is to provide the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for a provider to succeed in the challenging world of health care delivery. With a focus on developing competence and confidence, this transition-to-practice program prepares the APP to deliver superior patient care while in a protected learning environment.

The program uses a stepwise approach to develop learners into well-rounded, competent providers. It has a strong clinical core in Family and Community Medicine but also utilizes weekly didactics and specialty rotations to enhance learning and understanding of coordination of care.

The APP fellow rotates through several family medicine and same-day clinics, gaining exposure to a variety of provider styles and patient populations. Specialty rotations include but aren’t limited to sports medicine, gastroenterology, dermatology, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, neurology, pulmonary, endocrinology, ENT, women’s health and occupational health.