Position Description:

APP Psychiatry and Mental Health Fellowship

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Purpose:

The APP Psychiatry and Mental Health Fellowship is an immersive 12-month program in mental health focusing on underserved populations in a community-based setting. It attracts APPs seeking a structured educational program to support and guide their development of proficient clinical decision making and their application of specialized skills in the care of the mentally ill patients through in-person didactics and mentored clinical experiences.

Provides specialty health care services within defined scope of practice in collaboration with a licensed psychiatrist and in accordance with MCW/FMLH policies and procedures.

The Fellowship is an academic clinical partnership between the Medical College of Wisconsin, Froedtert Hospital, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, and University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and other affiliates. It is an immersive, longitudinal transition to practice 12-month residency in mental health focusing on underserved populations in community-based settings. Trainees will gain interdisciplinary team-based experiences across the life span. It will consist of core clinical rotations in a variety of ambulatory settings and an inpatient setting, elective rotations in specialized ambulatory settings, and didactic experiences

Anticipated Workweek: Position requires flexibility with respect to clinical rotations spanning inpatient and outpatient settings.

Structure and Supervisory Relationships

Fellowship Psychiatric Program Director: Judy Evenson, PMHNP-BC

Fellowship Psychiatric Associate Program Director: Jason Ipsarides, DNP, PMHNP-BC & Anna Melville, DNP, PMHNP-BC

Fellowship Education Coordinator: Jean Witte

Fellowship Physician Champion: Himanshu Agrawal, MBBS, MD

MCW Fellowship Program Manager: Sarah Vanderlinden, MPAS, PA-C, DFAAPA

Fellowship Expectation and Learning Outcomes:

• Advanced Assessment: Elicits, selects, and integrates information in the care of patients with acute, critical, and/or complex chronic illnesses using physiologic technologic and pharmacologic inputs.

• Differential Diagnosis: Makes and prioritizes real and potential conditions based on available data and the complexity and severity of patient condition.

• Outcomes Identification: Formulates goals and outcomes using scientific evidence that are consistent with the patient's wishes and present and potential capabilities.

• Plan of Care: Develops, prescribes, and/or modifies an outcomes-focused plan of care with an interprofessional team targeting health care that may be restorative, curative, rehabilitative, maintenance and or end-of-life for patients with complex needs.

• Implementation of Treatment: Identifies, prescribes, performs, or delegates therapeutic interventions.

• Evaluation of Care: Demonstrates ongoing evaluation of plan of care, recognizing patient response to therapy and change in condition, making modifications and assimilation of care team recommendations.

CORE ADVANCED PRACTICE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Performs comprehensive histories and psychiatric assessments, identifies normal and abnormal findings, including physical, cognitive, and psychosocial status.
• Orders and interprets laboratory and diagnostic tests.
• Develops pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical treatment plans.
• Monitors effectiveness of plan of care.
• Educates patients on disease and treatment plans.
• Performs procedures as trained and appropriately credentialed.
• Documents within the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and completes other necessary documents.
• Collaborates and/or consults with physicians and other health care providers as appropriate.
• Educates, counsels, and assists patients and families regarding current health problems, health maintenance activities and preventive behaviors.

Application Details

Application Deadlines - March 31, 2024

Anticipated Start Date - September 1, 2024

In addition to the application, please include the following materials:

• Curriculum Vitae / Resume
• Education Transcript for nurse practitioner or physician assistant education
• Copy of BCLS (must be American Heart Association issued)
• Three reference letters (at least one from your graduate program / current employer) - references can email directly to
• One-page statement of interest

*if you are unable to attach the materials to the application please email them to

Preferred Schedule:
Please refer to the anticipated workweek above

Position Requirements:

Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming workplace that includes individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We believe that embracing human differences is critical to realize our vision of a healthier world, and we recognize that a healthy and thriving community starts from within. We strive to integrate our human and social differences into MCW's functioning, strategies and culture to create a diverse and equitable workplace. If you believe embracing individuality and working together makes us stronger, then MCW is the place for you. People of color, women, LGBTQIA+, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Minimum Position Qualifications:

Nurse Practitioners

Completion of an accredited Nurse Practitioner Master's or Doctoral Program

Must possess the National Board Certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner, Geriatric-Adult Nurse Practitioner or Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner at the start of the program.

Possess licensure as a NP in Wisconsin by the start of the program.

Eligible for DEA licensure.

Acceptable criminal background check

Physician Assistants/Associates

Completion of an accredited Physician Associate's master's program

Possess NCCPAs certification by the start of the program.

Possess licensure as a PA in Wisconsin by the start of the program

Eligible for DEA licensure.

Acceptable criminal background check


** Candidates will only be considered for acceptance if they are currently attending or have completed an accredited NP/PA program.

MCW as an Equal Opportunity Employer and Commitment to Non-Discrimination
The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff, and students, as well as ensuring equal educational opportunity, employment, and access to services, programs, and activities, without regard to an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, sex, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristic, or military status. Employees, students, applicants or other members of the MCW community (including but not limited to vendors, visitors, and guests) may not be subjected to harassment that is prohibited by law or treated adversely or retaliated against based upon a protected characteristic.

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