APP Academy
Leadership is critical for success in medicine. Our APP Academy is a development course spread over one year, designed to equip and empower our future leaders with personal introspection, team building, conflict resolution, and leadership skills.
APP Leadership
We are committed to preparing our Advanced Practice Providers for potential leadership roles within our practice.
The USACS National Clinical Governance Board led the development of our national APP Academy program with a robust onboarding, education, and career pathway plan.
APP System Directors guide and manage APP Leads at each of our sites. Our leadership structure is designed to work in a dyad with our Physician colleagues, ensuring that APPs have a voice within the practice.
"By attracting and retaining the best APPs, and empowering them to reach their full potential, we’re empowering USACS to better serve our patients and hospital partners. That’s what it’s all about."
"By attracting and retaining the best APPs, and empowering them to reach their full potential, we’re empowering USACS to better serve our patients and hospital partners. That’s what it’s all about."
APP Academy Onboarding and Clinical Training
We have developed a comprehensive onboarding program that begins when a new APP signs their contract and continues through their first two years with USACS. The USACS APP Academy is a robust onboarding, education, and career pathway plan. It is designed to ensure APPs receive an appropriate number of mentored shifts based on their level of experience, along with essential risk management and required organizational training.
After the initial onboarding phase, the APP Academy continues to support professional growth through CME offerings in key areas such as patient experience, operational efficiency, high-risk medicine, advanced procedural skills, and EKG interpretation. Upon completion of the APP Academy, participants are formally recognized as USACS Certified.
We have developed a broad scope of practice guidelines that allow our APPs to work to the top of their license, per state regulations and hospital-specific privilege delineations.
Our APP Academy has been designed as an educational program which provides APPs courses in risk management, patient care, patient experience, efficiency, high risk medicine, and more.