Our Curriculum
The Family Nurse Practitioner Residency is a one-year salaried program based in the Bronx that provides intensive training in interdisciplinary care for underserved populations, as well as continuing education activities. The program includes precepted and independent continuity patient care sessions, specialty rotations, and didactic learning.
Continuity clinics are the cornerstone of the FNP residency program. Based at the Institute’s Bronx health centers, continuity clinics will comprise 60% of a resident’s time and allow the resident to develop their own panel of patients. The continuity clinics include:
- Precepted sessions with an assigned FNP, MD or PA preceptor alongside family medicine residents
- Mentored sessions where the resident sees patients off the mentor’s schedule
- Independent session where the resident sees patients independently with opportunities for consult with an onsite attending
Residents will spend 20% of their time in specialty rotations at the Institute and at partner organizations’ clinical sites. These rotations include but are not limited to:
- Social justice and advocacy
- Health care for the unhoused
- Substance use prevention and behavioral health
- Integrative medicine
- School-based health care
- Reproductive health and procedure training
- Obstetrics and prenatal care
- Dermatology
- Leadership and practice management
- Procedure clinic
- HIV care and prevention
- Journal club
Residents will attend didactics held with the Harlem Residency in Family Medicine and Mount Sinai Downtown Residency in Urban Family Medicine. Examples of topics covered include:
- Advanced practice nursing/family medicine fundamentals
- Obstetrics
- Sports medicine and orthopedics
- Women’s health
- Vulnerable populations
- Geriatrics
- Pediatrics and adolescent care
- Residents will work with a community based organization partner for approximately 2 months.
- Residents will participate in Advocacy Week, an annual event organized by CHCANYS (Community Health Care. Association of New York State), where Institute staff meet with state legislators and advocate for the needs of federally qualified health centers.
- Residents will be able to attend monthly grand rounds presentations at Mount Sinai Hospital.Residents will participate in a bi-monthly Balint group with a member of the behavioral health staff at the Institute for Family Health.
- Residents will have the opportunity to complete a poster for the annual Institute Research Symposium and have the ability to collaborate on other research activities at the Institute.