Our Post-Graduate Family Nurse Practitioner Residency Program
Our Program
The program’s ultimate goal is to help improve health outcomes for our patients and the global health of the communities we serve by expanding access to quality health and wellness services.
Residents are hired as 40 hour per week employees with full-time benefits that include salary, sick, vacation, personal time, health insurance, FSA, and a retirement plan. There is also loan repayment opportunity post-graduation if hired. Residents accepted to the program will be awarded a clinical portfolio upon successful completion of the residency.
Program Goals
Bassett’s Post-Graduate Family Nurse Practitioner Residency Program aims to:
- Train new post-graduate nurse practitioner residents to master the principles of primary care consistent with medical home principles that are team-based, comprehensive, patient-centered, coordinated, accessible, high quality, and safe.
- Increase the overall confidence and professional job satisfaction of new post-graduate nurse practitioners who are committed to working in underserved rural community settings.
- Cultivate the leadership qualities and potential of nurse practitioners to engage in leadership roles and activities both within their practice setting as well as in the local, state, and federal communities with which they are engaged.
Program Outline
Residency structure
- The 2024 program application is currently open
- Interviews start in April
- 12-month residency program begins in September
- Precepted clinical sessions by Bassett faculty (NP/MD/PA) 7 sessions/week
- Weekly sub-specialty clinics
- Observed patient care session with real-time interdisciplinary commentary
- Weekly didactic/seminars/workshops – held at the FoxCare Center and at Bassett Medical Center
- Daily chart rounds
- 2-week community health clerkship
- Weekly Grand Round and noontime clinical lectures
- One Quality Improvement project
Sample of On-Site Sub-Specialty Clinics
- Cardiology
- Diabetic Education
- ENT
- Gerontology
- Orthopedics
- Pediatrics
- Pediatric Neurology
- Psychiatry
- Physical Therapy
- School-Based Health
- Women’s Health
Sample of Weekly Didactic/Workshop*
Topics
- Diabetes 101
- Malpractice in Primary Care
- Women’s Health Issues in Primary Care
- The Elderly Patient
- Integrative Behavioral Health in Primary Care
- Motivational Interviewing
*Weekly didactics and workshops will be held at both the FoxCare Center and at Bassett Medical Center Medical School
Evaluation Methods
Pre- and Post-Residency Self Evaluation and Quarterly Faculty Evaluation of each Resident.
Applicant Qualifications
- Graduate of Accredited Master- or Doctorate-level program
- Certification by AANP or ANCC is required before program start
- DEA and NY registration/licensure is required
