Residency Programs For Nurse Practitioners Becoming More Common

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Published August 21, 2015 at 1:33 PM EDT

During a year-long residency program for new nurse practitioners, Shawn Marie Fox sees her own patients two afternoons a week. (Rowan Moore Gerety/Northwest Public Radio)

Faced with a shortage of primary care doctors, more and more clinics are relying on nurse practitioners to fill the gap. But that creates another gap, in the level of training providers bring to the job.

As Rowan Moore Gerety of Northwest Public Radio reports, residency programs, once reserved for physicians, are popping up for nurse practitioners as well.

Read more on this story via Northwest Public Radio

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Rowan Moore Gerety, reporter for Northwest Public Radio. He tweets @rowanmg.

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