The Keith Haring Nurse Practitioner Postgraduate Fellowship in LGBTQ+ Health
Applications for the 2024-2025 Fellowship are now closed. The next application cycle is expected to open in January 2025.
To receive updates and hear about when the next cycle of applications will open, share your email below.Welcome to the Keith Haring Nurse Practitioner Postgraduate Fellowship in LGBTQ+ Health!
Through this fellowship, we offer a premier LGBTQ+ healthcare training program that enhances knowledge, increases compassion, and brings awareness to the healthcare barriers that LGBTQ+ communities face. Upon completion of this training and experience, our fellows are specialized in LGBTQ+ health and utilize the skills they learn to help close the gap in health disparities for LGBTQ+ people.
This full-time, year-long program consists of precepted and independent sessions as well as specialty rotations and didactic portions. The fellowship is designed to give academically prepared family and adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioners an opportunity to spend time under the guidance of an LGBTQ+ health expert.
Fellowship Mission
Our mission is to train nurse practitioners through a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) lens and an anti-racist approach to provide high quality, patient-centered, culturally responsive, and compassionate care to LGBTQ+ communities in all of their diversity.
Fellowship Vision
Haring Fellows, with their increased knowledge and competency to treat the complex health care needs of the LGBTQ+ communities, will bring these new skills with them to help reduce the gap in health disparities for LBGTQ+ people.
Goals & Expectations
The fellowship program is rigorous and comprehensive and includes training in care for all LGBTQ+ communities and people living with HIV. Haring Fellows will commit to a year-long program that includes a full schedule of training, patient care, and didactics. Haring Fellows learn over time and have constant access to expert providers who will help shape their practice, alongside mentorship, networking, and professional growth opportunities. We expect Haring Fellows to feel passionately about primary care and working with LGBTQ+ communities.
Program goals:
- Increase the number of LGBTQ+ sensitive primary care providers and increase access to LGBTQ+ care that is comprehensive, anti-racist, team-based, patient-centered, coordinated, accessible, high quality and safe.
- Increase primary care workforce retention through improving confidence, capability and job satisfaction.
- Develop leadership qualities to improve clinic and patient outcomes through quality improvement, population health and/or research.
- Advance skills for creating organizational change via a DEI lens to transform healthcare systems to be LGBTQ+ inclusive and affirming.
By the end of the program, Haring Fellows will:
- Provide comprehensive, team-based, patient-centered, high-quality and safe primary and LGBTQ+ care.
- Demonstrate confidence that aligns with their competence.
- Develop a quality improvement plan, propose an intervention to improve population health, and/or engage in a research project at Callen-Lorde.
- Perform an evaluation and hold a sensitivity training at an outside organization regarding LGBTQ+ inclusivity.
- See 15-16 patients a day.
Curriculum & Schedule
The curriculum focuses on the advancement of clinical and diagnostic skills as well as leadership and scholarship skills. Haring Fellows will have supervised as well as independent sessions each week. Each fellow will work with clinical preceptors and other clinicians as they rotate through specific specialties and areas of practice. A strong focus is placed on primary care, HIV and STI prevention and treatment, including HIV pre-exposure and post exposure prophylaxis, anal health, gynecological care for sexual minority women and people of trans experience, transgender health (including hormone therapy, pre- and post- surgery evaluation), alternative insemination and parenting options, and HIV specialist training. Scholarly and leadership pursuits, such as presenting and publishing, quality improvement work, research and teaching are encouraged and mentored. While the majority of sessions will be spent in our Brooklyn site, for some of the specialty rotations there will be travel to offices outside of Brooklyn and to our Chelsea Manhattan location.
The fellowship consists of six sessions:
Precepted session:This is where Haring Fellows start to develop their own patient panel while working hand in hand with a preceptor.
Haring Fellows will continue to develop their panel, seeing patients on their own at a reduced case-load. A number of providers are available for consultation during these times.
Haring Fellows will be trained and mentored in treating HIV. Though likely to see people living with HIV (PLWH) during other sessions, this session will focus on seeing PLWH alongside an HIV specialist.
Haring Fellows will spend two to four weeks rotating through a variety of specialties in-house and outside of Callen-Lorde, including adolescent health, dental care, anal health, transgender health care, gender affirming surgery post-op care, reproductive health care, research and more.
Didactic training will be offered by Callen-Lorde providers and external specialists in a wealth of topics relevant to primary care, LGBTQ+ care, HIV and professional development.
This is when Haring Fellows will have time to dedicate towards finishing notes, labs, self-evaluations, and tasks as well as research, writing for publications, quality improvement work, and any other non-clinical pursuit dedicated to continued development in leadership and scholarly work.
Interested in applying? Here’s what you’ll need:
- FNP or AGPCNP from an accredited nursing school
- Your resume
- Short essay answers to 3 questions (maximum 400 words each):
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- Why do you want to work for an organization that serves the LGBTQ community?
- Here at Callen-Lorde we practice diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). What is your own definition of DEI and how have you shown up in this way?
- What are your goals for this fellowship program, including the specific areas of interest and skills you are hoping to develop?
- You may include a cover letter if you wish
- Three professional letters of recommendation. The actual letters must be uploaded for the application. Each letter must contain the following information about the referee: name, institution, relationship to the applicant, professional specialty, complete address, phone, email
Once you have these components ready, you’re ready to apply.
The Keith Haring Nurse Practitioner Postgraduate Fellowship in LGBTQ+ Health accredited through the National Nurse Practitioner Residency & Fellowship Training Consortium. Learn more about the rigorous standards of the NNPRFTC.
Visitors to our site are encouraged to provide public comment as part of our accreditation process. Please visit the Accreditation Status and Public Comment Website.
The Keith Haring Nurse Practitioner Postgraduate Fellowship in LGBTQ+ Health is funded, in part, through the Keith Haring LGBTQ+ Health Equity Endowment, which was established at Callen-Lorde by the Keith Haring Foundation in 2019.
Frequently Asked Questions:
When did the Keith Haring Nurse Practitioner Postgraduate Fellowship in LGBTQ+ Health begin?Our first two Fellows began August 31, 2020! We’re a new and exciting Fellowship, spawned from over 50 years of offering health services to people regardless of ability to pay, and from our passion for health equity and justice for our diverse LGBTQ communities and people living with HIV. We believe that access to healthcare is a human right and not a privilege.
The Keith Haring Nurse Practitioner Postgraduate Fellowship in LGBTQ+ Health is a year-long program, starting around the beginning of September.
Haring Fellows will be expected to work Monday through Friday. Your day may start at 8:30am or 12:30pm and may end at 4:30pm or 8:30pm depending on the shifts you are working that day. You will not be expected to work until 8:30pm more than twice a week.
There will be three fellows selected.
The specialty rotations will be both in house within Callen-Lorde and, when possible, externally at private practices or other community health clinics. Haring Fellows can expect to learn the more intricate details in treating warts, anal health, reproductive health, post-op care, and a variety of other topics.
In addition, Haring Fellows will work on a quality improvement and/or a research project.
The preceptors are expert clinicians that practice at Callen-Lorde who will work with the Fellows for the year. The Haring Fellows will train with other clinical providers as they cycle through specialty rotations.
The didactics will correspond to specialty rotation topics, and include LGBTQ health, primary care updates, and information relevant to starting practice and professional development.
Of course! You may apply from anywhere in the country. You are expected to have all your licensure and certifications to practice in New York completed by the time the program starts. We request you live within the area by the start of the program as well.
Sure can! While this program is geared towards new graduates, we welcome all interested in becoming a specialist in LGBTQ health care to apply.
Unfortunately, we are only accepting applications from family and adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioners.
You must have a current RN license in the United States. And you will need to have a license and DEA registration as a Nurse Practitioner before the program start date.
Fellows are employees of Callen-Lorde Community Health Center. As such they receive a competitive salary, full benefits and PTO. Details will be available during the interview process.
Fellows can schedule time off in advance. It must be submitted for approval.
Haring Fellows are not obligated to stay on after their Fellowship year is completed. If one is interested in continuing at Callen-Lorde, this can be discussed in the later part of the program year, as it will depend if the clinic is hiring.
For more information about the program please email us at haringfellowship@callen-lorde.org.