APP Residency Program

This is an intensive 2-year program for newly graduated Family or Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants who have a strong interest in primary care and community health.

We offer residents a diversity of learning opportunities including didactics, skills learning, mentorship, preceptorship, and specialty rotations.

Year 1:

• Month 1
  • Onsite bootcamp to shore up clinical skills
  • EMR training
  • Practice management skill building
  • Shadowing of different departments
  • Week-long, in-person didactics and skills training at UC Davis in Sacramento, CA (expenses covered)
• Months 2-12:
  • Continuity clinic with a gradual patient ramp up at FQHC
  • 2:1 preceptor ratio
  • Formal precepting from doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants
  • Weekly 1:1 mentoring
  • Formal evaluation and feedback given at frequent intervals
  • Biweekly didactic training from UC Davis academic partner over Zoom
  • Weekly schedule block dedicated for admin time
  • Quarterly in-person skills and didactic training at UC Davis in Sacramento
  • Quality improvement training, development, and implementation of QI project
  • Specialty care rotations: addiction medicine, HIV care, mobile medicine, psychiatry, Street Medicine, women’s health, wound care.

Year 2:

• Continued building of resident’s own patient panel in primary care with formal precepting
• Opportunity to choose a specialty track of focus: addiction medicine, psychiatry, Street Medicine, women’s health
• Weekly 1:1 mentoring
• Formal evaluation quarterly
• Didactic training in specialty areas
• Weekly schedule block dedicated for admin time
• Leadership training
• Preceptor training
• Additional CME time and days