Physician Assistant

Job Summary

Created in 2025, this Fellowship provides foundational training to prepare APPs for a career in critical and acute care medicine. The fellows participate in a year-long program in a supportive environment with ample autonomy, while caring for medically complex and critically ill patients. The program includes a diverse realm of clinical rotations, a robust didactic curriculum and opportunities to learn from skilled APPs, physicians, clinical pharmacists, nurses and other support staff.

The fellowship is within the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine with a focus on medical critical care. The bulk of time spent in the Medical ICU and Huntsman ICU (Heme/Onc). Our team consists of 22 APPs with varying experience levels who work alongside Intensivist Physicians.

Responsibilities

Clinical Curriculum

Clinical rotations include:

• Medical ICU
• Heme/Onc ICU
• Cardiothoracic Critical Care
• Neurocritical Care
• Anesthesia
• Interventional Pulmonology
• Hematology/Oncology
• Nephrology
• Palliative Care
• Infectious Disease
• Hospital Medicine

Didactic Curriculum

• Monthly Critical Care APP Fellowship core lecture series
• Monthly HICU/MICU APP group education meeting
• Monthly HICU/MICU APP group journal club
• 1 week "hospital Medicine boot camp" put on by the Hospital Medicine APC fellowship
• Procedural and skills-based workshops to be assigned
• Additional opportunities: Weekly Physician Fellows conference, Weekly Pulmonary Grand Rounds, Daily informal MICU teaching

Minimum Qualifications

Required:

• Current licensure to practice as a Physician Assistant from the State of Utah.
• Current RQI Healthcare Provider eCredential through the University of Utah Health RQI system. The eCredential is to be obtained within 30 days of hire.

Preferred:

• Certification in ACLS/BLS/NRP/ATLS may be required by your department or by privileging criteria.