Advanced Practice Provider Oncology Fellowship

During the first month, fellows complete required certifications and modules, meet with clinical leadership and attend department orientations and lectures. 

Fellows will participate in six to seven half-day clinics per week throughout the associated rotations. At the end of the fellowship, there is an elective rotation, lasting approximately eight weeks. The fellow identifies the service or services they want to pursue and the leadership team will design a custom rotation to match those interests. 

This refers to clinics that are relevant to a specific rotation. Fellows will participate in one to four half-days of these supplementary clinics. Examples of offerings in the general oncology area of focus include a supplementary clinic in skin oncology during the renal melanoma rotation and a supplementary clinic in oncology ICU during the inpatient oncology rotation.

Fellows will also participate in specialty clinics throughout the fellowship. Specialty clinics are not associated with a specific rotation and are designed to help the fellow gain experience, understand and gain confidence regarding important, and often difficult, areas related to oncology-related care, such as communicating difficult news during end-of-life care or evaluating and managing patients with urgent care or psychological needs.

The fellowship includes three continuity clinics, each lasting three months. Each week, fellows will spend a half day with a preceptor, providing continuous care to a group of patients. Fellows may choose the type of rotations they prefer. 

Each fellow is paired with an experienced APP at the beginning of the fellowship who will mentor them throughout the year. 

Every Friday morning, fellows meet for didactic learning. This may include evaluating case studies and engaging in simulations, participating in live APP-led lectures and discussions, researching and/or taking part in clinical workshops. Fellows will also have professional check-ins with the fellowship co-directors and leadership at this time.

At the end of the program, fellows will receive a certificate of completion, demonstrating their proficiency in providing exemplary, comprehensive and diverse patient-centered care to oncology patients. 

During the last few months of the fellowship, fellows will work with program leaders to develop a presentation on a topic of their choice. Fellows will then deliver this lecture to their APP colleagues.