What is the Community Primary Care Provider Fellowship?

The Mount St. Joseph University Physician Assistant Program, along with institutional partner the University of Cincinnati Department of Family and Community Medicine, was awarded funding in September, 2018 for a new training project by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Transformational Fellowship Training for Community Primary Care Champions is a $2 million, five-year award.

The award will create a new faculty-development fellowship under Program Director Dr. Megan Rich. Early-career Primary Care Providers will be trained in leadership, healthcare transformation, and education through a curriculum built on quality improvement, the social determinants of health, substance use disorders, collaborative mental health care, medical education curriculum, and provider wellness. Each of the 20 fellows (2018-2023) will also complete a mentored practice transformation project through community-participatory learning.

  • Fellows are physicians or physician assistants practicing in primary care for at least two years out of training. Each class size ideally is 4-6 fellows

  • Each fellow receives a stipend intended to fund time necessary for the fellowship’s activities

  • All fellowship activities, including self-study, lecture, project development and group discussions, comprise about 16 hours per month (or about 10% of professional effort)

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This project and website are/were supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number, 1T13HP31904, Primary Care Training Enhancement: Training Primary Care Champions, with an award totaling $1,998,585 with 0 percentage 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.