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The National Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Training Consortium (DBA "Consortium for Advanced Practice Providers") offers programmatic accreditation for postgraduate nurse practitioner and joint nurse practitioner and physician associate training programs, designed by NP and PA postgraduate program directors, for NP and PA postgraduate program directors. The Consortium for Advanced Practice Providers exists to support new and ongoing postgraduate training programs for nurse practitioners and physician associates in the achievement and maintenance of the highest standards of rigor and quality, consistent with achieving the goal of an expert healthcare workforce prepared to meet the needs of patients and the society as a whole. |
APP Postgraduate Training
Why APP postgraduate residency and fellowship training?
Healthcare organizations across the United States face increasing demands to provide high-quality, patient-centered care while addressing workforce shortages, expanding access to services, and caring for patients with increasingly complex health needs. As healthcare delivery continues to evolve, advanced practice providers (APPs), including nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician associates/assistants (PAs), play an essential role in meeting these challenges.
Postgraduate residency and fellowship training programs provide newly graduated NPs and PAs with a structured transition-to-practice experience that enhances clinical competence, confidence, professional development, and readiness for independent practice. Through intensive clinical training, mentorship, didactic education, and interprofessional collaboration, these programs help prepare APPs to deliver high-quality care across a wide range of practice settings and specialties.
Postgraduate training programs also support healthcare organizations by strengthening workforce development, improving recruitment and retention, fostering clinical excellence, and helping meet the needs of patients and communities. Programs have been developed in primary care, emergency medicine, hospital medicine, critical care, oncology, psychiatry, surgery, neurology, pediatrics, and many other specialties, reflecting the growing demand for advanced practice providers throughout the healthcare system.
As the number and diversity of postgraduate APP training programs continue to expand nationwide, these programs serve as an important strategy for preparing the next generation of highly skilled clinicians and advancing the quality of healthcare delivery in the United States.
Explore Postgraduate Training Programs
View the national directory of postgraduate NP, PA, and Joint NP/PA residency and fellowship programs.
- Primary Care, Psychiatry/Mental Health, Pediatrics, and Adult/Gerontology Programs
- Specialty NP, PA, and Joint NP/PA Programs
If your program is not listed, and you wish to have it added to the maps, please complete this survey. Responses in the survey received before the 3rd Friday of the month will be available on the 1st Friday of the following month.
Updated and Approved 06/30/2026
