Advanced Practice Provider Primary Care Residency

Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, Inc.•Worcester, MA

4d•$95,000 - $95,000

About The Position

Kennedy Community Health Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, is seeking new Physician Assistants and Family Nurse Practitioners for its 2026–2027 APP Residency cohort. This full-time, 12-month residency is designed for recent graduates (within 18 months of graduation) and provides a foundation for building a career as a Primary Care Provider in community health. Residents are full-time employees and receive a salary, support, and benefits. The starting salary is $95,000 per year, and the schedule is 40 hours per week. The program prepares Family APPs to provide comprehensive primary care to complex, underserved populations across the lifespan. It builds on formal clinical education through clinical and professional support in an active learning environment and prepares residents for careers serving underserved patient populations. Residents work with preceptors and team members with varied expertise and clinical interests. Under the direct guidance of attending NPs, PAs, MDs, and DOs, residents have precepted continuity sessions in which they see their own panel of primary care patients. They also participate in internship/shadow sessions alongside experienced providers, specialty sessions that may include reproductive health, addiction medicine, urgent care, infectious disease clinic, procedure clinic, and telemedicine, and weekly didactic sessions. Applicants must commit to the 12-month full-time residency and a second year of full-time employment at the health center.

Requirements

Be a recent graduate of a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant program, within 18 months of graduation.
Agree to a full-time, 12-month residency and commit to a second year of full-time employment at the health center.
Be a U.S. citizen, a foreign national with a visa permitting permanent residency in the United States, or a non-citizen national; individuals on temporary or student visas are not eligible.

Responsibilities

Provide primary care to a panel of patients during precepted continuity sessions.
Work alongside experienced providers during internship and shadow sessions.
Participate in specialty sessions, which may include reproductive health, addiction medicine, urgent care, infectious disease clinic, procedure clinic, and telemedicine.
Participate in weekly didactic sessions.
Commit to a second year of full-time employment at the health center after completing the residency.