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Dear Colleague(s) –I wanted to share information about a special initiative that will be hosted at the upcoming Beyond Flexner 2022 conference taking place March 28-30, 2022 in Phoenix, AZ. The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards for Excellence in Social Mission were created to recognize outstanding leadership in promoting social mission in health professions education. Social […]
It is my pleasure to share our newest blog and introduce our guest blogger, who is no stranger to the Consortium or to writing blogs. Candice Rettie, Ph.D. was the Consortium’s inaugural Executive Director and has graciously offered to write this quarter’s blog. Thank you Candice. We appreciate everything you have done for the consortium […]
American Academy of Nursing Announces 2021 Class of New Fellows Academy to Induct 225 Nurse Leaders at its Health Policy Conference in OctoberAugust 4, 2021 (Washington, DC) — The American Academy of Nursing (Academy) announced today that it has selected 225 distinguished nurse leaders to be inducted into the 2021 Class of Fellows. The inductees will be recognized […]
Program alumni share what their postgraduate residency and fellowship training meant to them in the below video.
The National Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Consortium (NNPRFTC) is pleased to announce the initial accreditation of Community Healthcare Network’s Primary Care and Psychiatric Community Healthcare Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Programs, sponsored by Community Healthcare Network headquartered in New York, NY. NNPRFTC’s Accreditation Commission’s initial programmatic accreditation is for three years. Congratulations to Community Healthcare Network’s […]
The National Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Consortium (NNPRFTC) is pleased to announce the initial accreditation of another postgraduate NP/PA Residency Training Program: Petaluma Health Center’s Joint NP/PA Postgraduate Residency Training Program, sponsored by Petaluma Health Center headquartered in Petaluma, CA. NNPRFTC’s Accreditation Commission’s initial programmatic accreditation is for three years. Congratulations to Petaluma Health Center’s […]
Who among us has the same thoughts, ideas and assumptions that we had ten, eleven, or twelve short months ago? How could we? A plague has torn through our country, unabated as I write this. While largely nondiscriminatory in its deadliness, COVID-19 has shone a light on a health care system rife with, even defined […]
Summer is almost over and Fall is in the air. It’s a time for new beginnings, when many programs are welcoming their new cohort of trainees, often before the dust has settled from the previous cohort’s graduation. I think we would all agree, this was a summer like no other. Between the COVID-19 pandemic, the […]
It is lovely to join you again, and my honor to write this guest blog. My retirement took several months to actually happen – life intervened. In February I finally began to shift into a more relaxed schedule. Then the pandemic hit. Over the last months, every one of us has experienced loss. The heart-aching […]
