The Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital Acute Care Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship is a one-year pediatric fellowship for clinicians credentialed as advanced practice providers (APPs) who are interested in gaining additional training. The fellow will be trained for a career as an acute care pediatric nurse practitioner or physician assistant with an emphasis on excellence in patient care, development of technical skills and clinical translational research.
The fellow will work under the mentored support of experienced APPs and specialty physicians, and will have access to didactic education, high fidelity simulated learning and inquiry opportunities in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins All Children’s physician residency program. The fellow will work in an academic inpatient setting and be exposed to ambulatory subspecialties, with rotations including the pediatric intensive care unit, hematology-oncology, emergency medicine, general surgery, neurosurgery and anesthesiology.
As part of the training program, semi-annual performance evaluations and monthly meetings will occur throughout the year. The fellow also will participate in clinical simulation scenarios.
The acute care advanced practice provider fellowship is designed for APPs seeking:
- To bolster greater confidence in caring for medically complex and critically ill children
- Additional inpatient pediatrics training for a seamless transition into an acute care pediatric career
- Additional training in a specialty of choice for continued professional development
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- Length: 1 year, January 2025 - December 2025 or July 2025 - June 2026
- Stipend: Training stipend and benefits provided
- Requirements: Candidates must be credentialed as an advanced practice provider
- Hours: 40 hours per week, including required night and weekend shifts
- Questions? To learn more or ask questions, please contact Frankie Gilliland, DNP, APP Acute Care Fellowship Director, [email protected]
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In order to be considered for the fellowship, all candidates must submit the following:
- Current curriculum vitae (CV)
- Two letters of recommendation
- Clinical recommendation from a peer or physician
- Academic recommendation
Note: Letters of reference and personal statement should be uploaded within the application and in a PDF format.
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To be eligible for the fellowship, nurse practitioners must meet the following requirements:
- Master’s degree from an accredited Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse licensure in the state of Florida
- Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner certification
- Basic life support (BLS) and pediatric advanced life support (PALS) certifications
- Satisfactory background check
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To be eligible for the fellowship, physician assistants must meet the following requirements:
- Graduation from an APAP (ARC-PA) approved physician assistant training program
- Physician Assistant licensure in the state of Florida
- Certification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants
- Basic life support (BLS) and pediatric advanced life support (PALS) certifications
- Satisfactory background check
Additional Fellowship Information
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The fellow will have the opportunity to do core and elective clinical rotations.
Core rotations include:
- Pediatric critical care (two months)
- Hematology-Oncology (one month)
- Emergency medicine (two months)
- Center for Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (one month)
- Surgical services: trauma/general surgery and neurosurgery (one month each)
- Anesthesia/Pain management (one month total)
- Congenital heart defects and cardiovascular intensive care unit (CVICU) (one month)
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Fellows will be involved in a variety of educational and training opportunities, including:
- APP fellowship lecture series in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital residency program
- Simulation training
- Grand rounds
- Clinical conferences
- Morbidity and mortality (M&M) conferences
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Each fellow will be required to complete a capstone project. The goal is to introduce and involve the APP in a quality or process improvement initiative, educational initiative, or development of a clinical care guideline. To prepare the fellow to execute their capstone project, each fellow will complete Lean Six Sigma training and our Patient Quality and Safety elective during their fellowship. Opportunities to demonstrate their work and completed project are throughout the 12 months.