Surgical Specialties Fellowship for Advanced Practice Providers

Atrium Health’s advanced practice provider (APP) fellowship in Surgical Specialties is a 12-month immersive program offered to nurse practitioner and physician assistants. Our program trains fellows in highly specialized surgical settings and exposes them to state-of-the-art procedural techniques and surgical patient care.

Gain Skills in Multiple Settings

By directing patient care in a protected learning environment, fellows gain confidence and competence in a complex medical specialty and acquire the knowledge, skills, and clinical judgment to safely manage patient care. They will learn how to:

• Investigate, diagnose and recommend appropriate treatment options
• Assist in performing operative procedures
• Provide preoperative, postoperative and late postoperative care

Fellows partner with interdisciplinary providers and develop skills in multiple acute care surgery settings by providing real-time patient care before, during and after surgery. Simulation is used to teach procedural techniques and the use of medical devices. Training during surgery, includes:

• Using surgical instruments and suturing
• Achieving hemostasis
• Managing surgical wounds
• Maintaining a sterile operating room environment

Comprehensive Postgraduate Approach

The program’s innovative curriculum provides the foundation to manage the complex care of the acute care surgery patient across a wide range of general and highly specialized surgical procedures. From evidence-based practice and practice guideline development to translational knowledge and quality improvement, our rotations allow fellowship graduates to gain ACS expertise above and beyond their master’s degree training.

Core Rotations

• General and acute care surgery
• Surgical critical care
• Liver and kidney transplantation 
• Hepato-pancreatic-biliary surgery
• Pediatric acute care surgery 
• Plastic surgery

Electives

• Cutaneous and soft tissue surgery
• Head and neck surgery
• Orthopedics
• Can also repeat any core rotation

How to Apply to Charlotte, NC Specialty Tracks:

External Candidates (Never have applied to Atrium Health before) – Please make an account with your best contact email and upload required documentation.

Internal Candidates (Previously or currently work at Atrium Health, Carolinas Healthcare, or Wake Forest) – Please sign in with your email you used previously and upload all required documentation listed below. If you currently have an Atrium Health email, you can sign in with “Single Company Sign On”