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

Mission Statement

Our core mission is to train clinicians to meet the highest professional standards. Our program focuses on preparing them to provide exceptional, evidence-based, and specialized care that is always centered on the patient. We are also committed to research that finds fundamental answers about disease mechanisms, prevention, treatment, and healthcare delivery. Our curriculum's goal is to produce Advanced Practice Providers who will improve health through their work in patient care, research, and education. We believe in an educationally driven curriculum and a patient- and family-centered approach to healthcare.

Program Objectives

Practice of Healthcare Promotion & Disease Prevention

• Apply scientific principles and a multidisciplinary body of scientific knowledge to the diagnosis, management, and prevention of clinical problems.
• Understand the variation in the expression of health and disease through critical evaluation of biomedical

Clinical Competence

• Obtain a sufficient level of scientific knowledge to understand the basic facts, concepts, and principles essential to competent clinical practices.
• Exhibit the highest level of effective and efficient performance in data gathering organization, interpretation and clinical decision making in the prevention, diagnosis, and management of disease.

The Social Context of Health

• Understand and respond to factors that influence the social, behavioral, and economical factors in health, disease and medical care.

Communication

• Demonstrate effective and compassionate interpersonal communication skills toward patients and families necessary to form and sustain effective care.
• Present information and ideas in an organized and clear manner to educate or inform patients, families, colleagues and community.

Professionalism

• Display the personal attributes of compassion, honesty and integrity in relationships with patients, families, and the health care community.
• Adhere to the highest ethical standards of judgment and conduct as it applies to the health care
• Demonstrate a critical self-appraisal in knowledge and practice of healthcare promotion and disease Allow reciprocal constructive appraisal between patients, families, colleagues and other healthcare professionals.

Lifelong Learning

• Understand the limits of personal knowledge and experience and demonstrate the intellectual curiosity to actively pursue the acquisition of new knowledge and skills necessary to refine and improve health promotion practices or to contribute to the scientific body of medical knowledge.