East Bay Consortium Nurse Practitioner Residency
Welcome
Welcome aspiring nurse practitioners! Since its inception, the East Bay Consortium-Nurse Practitioner Residency (EBC-NPR) Program has led the way in creating a post-graduate training experience that focuses on health equity, anti-oppression, and clinical excellence. Just as we care for the whole patient at our clinics, we educate the whole person by fostering resiliency, creating community, and teaching you the clinical content and skills you need to care for systemically disadvantaged populations in a busy, always evolving, community health setting. We’re glad you found your way to this website and to this profession. And we can’t wait to meet you!
About Us
The East Bay Consortium-Nurse Practitioner Residency program is a 12-month intensive training program sponsored by LifeLong Medical Care and designed as a partnership between four Federally Qualified Community Health Centers and one academic center: Bay Area Community Health, La Clinica, LifeLong Medical Care, Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center, and University of California San Francisco’s School of Nursing (UCSF-SON).
Our mission is to train newly graduated nurse practitioners to provide comprehensive, competent, and compassionate care to a diverse and underserved low-income population across the lifespan using an evidence-based, trauma-informed and collaborative approach. Under the shared goal of building a diverse and excellent nurse practitioner workforce and improving access to quality care for vulnerable systemically disadvantaged communities, we harness the clinical expertise of providers from these health centers and UCSF-SON faculty to offer our residents a unique curriculum and program structure that consists of primary care and specialty clinic rotations, weekly didactics, and quality improvement projects.
2022-2023 Application Cycle
Application cycle opens January 10, 2022.
Applications are due by March 25, 2022.
Interviews will be scheduled: Weeks of April 11 & April 18.
2022-2023 Residency year will start October 3, 2022.
Info Sessions
February 18, 2022
12:00 – 1:00pm PST via Zoom
March 12, 2022
9:00 – 10:00am PST via Zoom
Mission
Our mission is to train newly graduated nurse practitioners to provide comprehensive, competent and compassionate care to a diverse and underserved low-income population across the lifespan using an evidence-based, trauma-informed and collaborative approach.
Program Overview
Program Structure
The 12-month EBC-NPR Program is structured around the following areas:
Precepted continuity clinic
(6-7 half day shifts/week)
- 2:1 resident to preceptor ratio per shift; each resident has their own schedule of patients.
- Residents start with a patient load of 4 patients/shift at the start of the residency and ramp-up to a full provider’s patient load by the end of the residency year.
- Preceptors consist of experienced providers: CNM, DO, MD, NP, or PA
- Preceptors’ schedules are blocked so that their time is dedicated to mentoring, consultation, and observation of the resident pair
- Over the course of the year, residents will gradually increase their level of independence as they assume ownership of assessments, treatment plans, follow up, laboratory and diagnostic results, and patient communication
Mentored specialty clinic
(1-2 half days/week)
- 1 resident working with 1 preceptor; resident typically works off of preceptor’s schedule
- Specialty rotations vary across host sites and typically involve commuting to a different location.
- Examples of specialty care rotations: Urgent Care, Prenatal Care, MAT (Medication Assisted Treatment), Gerontology, Street Medicine, School-Based Medicine, LGBTQ STI clinic, procedure clinic (specific available specialty rotations depend on site, preceptor availability and COVID restrictions)
Didactics
(1 half day/week)
- Includes presentations on clinical, health equity, and community health topics ranging from Well Child visits, CHF management, HTN guidelines, gender-affirming care, Food as Medicine, Structural Competency, EKG interpretation and more.
- Monthly interdisciplinary didactics with Family Medicine Residents
- Opportunities to review cases
- Space for anti-oppression discussions and presentations created by and for residents
- Mix of in-person and Zoom meetings*
*In-person meetings require commuting from host site to centralized meeting space.
Quality Improvement Project
(1 half day/month or equivalent)
- An opportunity for residents to develop leadership skills and systems improvement skills through a year-long, team-based Quality Improvement Project
- Each resident pair works with a team at their host site to assess population health-based needs, then designs and implements a project to meet that need
- Quarterly QI didactic sessions provide foundational knowledge to support QI projects
Sample Weekly Schedule
The following is meant to provide an idea of what a typical week in the residency may look like:
| AM | Pediatrics | Adult Medicine | Gyn | Adult Medicine | Adult Medicine |
| PM | Pediatrics | Admin | Urgent Care | Didactics | Adult Medicine |
Program Structure
What Makes Us Unique?
- High quality mentorship and preceptorship. Our preceptors all participate in rigorous teacher training from the Teach for UCSF Certificate Program.
- Diverse clinical rotations and curriculum tailored to prepare you for caring for systemically disadvantaged populations in a clinically innovative urban setting.
- Commitment to program improvement and academic excellence guided by our partnership with UC-San Francisco School of Nursing.
- Strong demonstrated commitment to diversity, inclusion and equity embedded in curriculum and values of the organization.
- Every facet of learning is interdisciplinary. Training staff include professionals from diverse personal and professional backgrounds; some didactic sessions are offered in collaboration with Family Medicine Residency program.
What Makes Us Unique?
Locations/Host Sites
Bay Area Community Health (BACH)
2 residents
- Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Gynecology; 3 month-long Urgent Care rotation provided through LifeLong Medical Care.
- Electives: HIV care, Street Medicine, Dermatology, Gender-Affirming care (electives last between one week to 3 months; residents may participate in one or more of these electives depending on availability of preceptor and COVID restrictions).
- Residents rotate through Mowry and Central Fremont clinical sites.
La Clinica
2 residents
- Family Medicine/Adult Medicine, Urgent Care, Prenatal care, Gynecology, School-based, Pediatrics.
- Residents rotate through Transit Village and Alta Vista clinical sites.
- Spanish-speaking fluency required.
LifeLong Medical Care
6 residents
- Clinical Sites (each site hosts 2 residents each):
- Ashby/East Oakland (site for Adult and Gerontology Nurse Practitioners. Time is divided between the 2 clinical sites): Adult Primary Care/Internal Medicine, Urgent Care, Street Medicine, MAT, HIV care.
- Brookside San Pablo: Adult Primary Care, Pediatric Primary Care, Gynecology, Urgent Care, MAT; Spanish-speaking fluency strongly desired.
- West Berkeley: Family Medicine (integrated Adult and Pediatric Primary Care), Gynecology, Gerontology, MAT, Urgent Care, procedure clinic.
Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center
2 residents
- Block rotation schedule--residents spend 16 weeks in each rotation:
- Pediatrics
- Adult Medicine
- Obstetrics-Gynecology
- Specialty: 3 month-long Urgent Care rotation provided through LifeLong Medical Care.
- Residents will rotate through Silva Pediatrics Clinic, San Leandro, Hayward, & Union City clinical sites.
- Spanish-speaking fluency strongly desired.
- Previous experience providing prenatal care required
Locations/Host Sites
DEI & Anti-Oppression Curriculum Integration
The NPR curriculum, including didactics and specialty rotations, will highlight what NPs need to know to serve high risk/low-income patients with a focus especially on population health, behavioral health and substance abuse. Caring for patients with a history of trauma can lead to vicarious trauma and a high rate of burnout. This can be especially true for providers from disadvantaged backgrounds whose own experience may be similar to that of their patients. Special attention will be paid to teaching NPRs the art of self-care and good work/life balance, with didactics in vicarious trauma and trauma-informed care and weekly group debriefings. Residents will be encouraged to lean on each other for support as they build their resilience.
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Benefits
Residents are hired by the FQHC where they will spend the majority of their rotations. However, benefits are similar across all sites.
- Residents earn 70% of starting Nurse Practitioner wages at their Federally-Qualified Health Center
- Paid time off, sick and vacation
- Comprehensive medical and dental benefits
- 403B retirement plan
- CME funds and time off
- DEA reimbursement
- Loan deferment & Perkins/Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility
- Post-residency employment counseling
Benefits & Pay
Eligibility & How to Apply
Applicants must meet the following qualifications to become eligible to apply:
- Completed MSN or DNP program within last 18 months
- California state RN & NP license by start of program
- Family Nurse Practitioner certified by accredited agency by start of program
- Demonstrated commitment to work in safety net setting
- Bilingual (especially Spanish) strongly desired for some positions (2 stipends are available to candidates with cultural/linguistic fluency or strong commitment/plan to gain Spanish proficiency prior to residency start)
- Include clinic rotation locations and hours as well as language proficiencies.
- Unofficial MSN or DNP transcripts (Up until current date. Proof of graduation not necessary to apply.)
- Three letters of recommendations (one academic, one professional and one of your choice.)
- Personal statement (approx. 2 pages) that integrates and answers the following questions:
- What motivates you to work as a primary care NP in a safety net setting? If personal experiences have contributed to your career choice, please speak to this.
- How do racism and other forms of oppression show up in health care systems and settings and what is your role as an NP in undermining and dismantling oppression, in particular anti-Black racism?
- This is a rigorous full-time program that requires study and prep time outside of work hours. How do you practice self-care?
- For those who think they may be eligible for the stipend for service to our Spanish-speaking Latinx communities, please share what motivates you to care for this community and describe your cultural and linguistic proficiency. If not yet fluent, describe your plan you may have to improve your Spanish language abilities.
Please send all documents to npresidency@lifelongmedical.org. It is helpful, but not necessary, to send documents in a single email. If unable to email documents please notify us that you are mailing your application materials to the following address:
East Bay Consortium NP Residency Program
C/O LifeLong Medical Care
Attn: Brittaney Barba Padilla
2344 6th Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
Eligibility & How to Apply
Meet Our Residents
LifeLong Medical Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
The East Bay Consortium Nurse Practitioner Residency Program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $3,200,000 with 0% financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.