Primary care nurse practitioner residency program | veterans affairs
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* This is a 12-month program. * Residency Curriculum includes: Clinical rotations on inter-professional teams Learner-selected quality-improvement project Didactic sessions frequently
(typically weekly) to promote inter-professional learning as part of the curriculum. NP residents work in a patient-centered medical home model (called PACT: Patient-Aligned Care Team within
the VA) with a “teamlet” consisting of an interdisciplinary clinical care team. NP residents manage the primary care of approximately 200 patients, conduct routine follow-up, new patient,
telephone and video-based care, women’s health, and urgent care visits. Specialty placements are either longitudinal or rotation-based experiences. Options may be cardiology, dermatology,
pulmonology, palliative care, pain, urgent care, wound care, surgery, podiatry, radiology, and pharmacy. Primary care clinics are mentored by NP and MD faculty to facilitate the development
of skills in patient-centered and team-based care and communication, clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills, continuous quality improvement, and equity-based and scholarship activities.
Co-precepting NP students with clinical faculty. Clinical teaching assignments. Upon successful completion of the residency a certificate is awarded. Candidates who successfully complete
the residency training program will be given the opportunity to apply for available vacancies at the CVVAMC.