Family Nurse
Practitioner Residency

The program includes precepted primary care sessions, specialty rotations, didactic sessions, and quality improvement training for broad, diverse, and structured training.

NeighborHealth offers three residency slots for this intensive training program. The FNP residency is a full-time, 12-month salaried position based at NeighborHealth sites in East Boston, Winthrop, and the South End. Programs start in September and run through the end of August the following year.

Applicants must commit to the full duration of the residency.

NeighborHealth invites postgraduate family nurse practitioners (FNP) to apply. Bilingual candidates are highly encouraged.

Program description

Our 12-month, full-time residency provides new Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) graduates (within 18 months of graduation) with the foundation to build their careers as a primary care provider in community-focused health centers. The FNP residency is a highly structured one year of clinical training that provides mentorship in a high-performance model of care. By the end of the program, residents will have gained the competence, mastery, and confidence needed to be a NP primary care provider that serves culturally diverse and clinically complex patients.

More about our program:

• Residents have a minimum of 6 primary care precepted sessions per week, with each session 4 hours in length. Residents will have individualized productivity ramp up plans. A procedure clinic is also part of the primary care sessions.
• Dedicated preceptors provide direct supervision and consultation during the precepted sessions.
• Residents have 1 session per week of a specialty rotation at NeighborHealth. Examples of specialty rotations include: Pediatrics, Sports Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Women’s Health (OB/GYN).
• Each week includes a dedicated 4-hour session of didactic teaching that draws upon the expertise of NeighborHealth staff and affiliates.
• Residents work with our Quality Improvement (QI) team 4 hours per month to develop a QI initiative over their residency year.
• As a community health center, our knowledge base and service emphasis extend beyond the four walls of our clinics. The communities we serve tend to have significantly lower life expectancy and higher incidence of chronic disease; these topics will be highlighted and addressed throughout the residency.
• Leadership and professional development skills are taught during clinical sessions and didactic sessions. Our goal is to build on the skills our residents currently have and ultimately develop our residents into leaders, teachers, and role models for future students and residents.

Program structure

Hours

• 10 4-hour sessions per week, broken down as:
  • 6 precepted sessions/week in Family Medicine, including a procedure clinic
  • 1 education session/week (didactic/seminar/workshop)
  • 3 additional sessions per week:
    • Administrative time
    • QI project and Population Management
    • Specialty Rotations including Behavioral Health, Sports Medicine, OB/GYN, and more.

Program benefits

• Full time salaried/benefited position, including:
  • Vacation, personal, sick, and CME time
  • Retirement plan
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance
•  Working within a large multi-disciplinary team
• Clinical portfolio upon successful completion of the residency
• Post-Residency NP Mentorship Program if hired as an FNP PCP at NeighborHealth

Evaluation methods

• Pre- and post-residency self-evaluation
• Quarterly faculty evaluation of each resident
• Monthly meeting with residency advisor

If you have questions, please email us at FNPresidency@NeighborHealth.com. We will get back to you as soon as possible.

The NeighborHealth FNP Residency Program is in the process of accreditation through the Consortium for Advance Practice Providers. If you would like to provide public comment as part of our Accreditation Process, please visit the Accreditation Status and Public Comment Website here.