Eleven North Carolina clinicians—also preceptors to Duke University medical, nursing and PA students—completed a Primary Care Training and Enhancement Program Faculty Development Mini-Fellowship, offered by the Duke Physician Assistant Program. The fellowship was held remotely over three days this fall.
Mini-fellowship participants were:
- Jeanna Bateston, PA-C — Duke Family Medicine Center, Durham
- Molly Evans, PA-C — Roxboro Family Medicine and Immediate Care, Roxboro
- Hailey Kessler Hourigan, PA-C — Duke University Hospital, Durham
- Sarah Lipscomb, NP — Just for Us Program, Division of Community Health, Duke Family Medicine & Community Health, Durham
- Angela Lewis, PA-C — LiliBott Consultorios Medicos, Winston-Salem
- Stephanie Martinez, PA-C — Southern High School Wellness Center, Division of Community Health, Duke Family Medicine & Community Health, Durham
- Sara Mazarelli, PA-C — Duke Family Medicine North Duke Street, Durham
- Hayden Mulligan, PA-C — Duke Primary Care Mebane, Mebane
- LaTisha Patterson, PA-C — H.O.P.E. Regional Medical Clinic, Warrenton
- Aaron Pico, PA-C — Boice-Willis Clinic, Rocky Mount
- Serena Wong, DO — Duke Geriatric Evaluation and Treatment Center, Durham
The goal of the mini-fellowship is to equip preceptors to become effective clinician educators who can develop and implement curricula, and facilitate group QI projects that will address needs of vulnerable populations in North Carolina. The mini-fellowship is part of a Health Resources and Services Administration grant awarded to Duke University in 2016 for primary care training and enhancement. Learn more about the mini-fellowship.
Participant Serena Wong, DO, said of her experience in the mini-fellowship: “The mini-fellowship provided me a great opportunity to hone my QI skills and work on a meaningful educational project with learners in my clinic. I appreciated being able to share ideas with other providers from a variety of clinical settings and backgrounds, which helped me think outside of my box. Especially helpful was the opportunity to work one-on-one with an expert advisor on my QI project, which really helped me drill down on ways to make my project clinically relevant, educational, and—most of all—successful. My project is going well so far, and I’m looking forward to creating more QI initiatives in the future.”
PA Program Director Jacqueline Barnett, DHSc, MSHS, PA-C, PA-C, associate professor of family medicine and community health, is project director and Sandro Pinheiro de Oliveira, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and senior education specialist, Duke PA program, is co-project director. Laresia Farrington serves as program/grant coordinator.