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Effective March 1, 2023, all Advance Practice Clinician (APC) rotation requests must be submitted via My Clinical Exchange by the school coordinators/clinical director on behalf of students. Submitting a request does not guarantee a placement.

Aurora is currently not accepting new affiliation agreements. We will continue working with the affiliation agreements we have with numerous schools and our Core Academic Partners.

Welcome students

Aurora has an established academic history with teaching hospitals, numerous academic affiliations and university faculty adjunct preceptors. With more than 33,000 employees, Aurora stretches from the Green Bay area to the northern Chicago suburbs.

Placement locations can range from major metro Milwaukee hospital locations to small community health centers. Ambulatory clinic placements could be in urban, suburban or rural settings. Rotations include:

• Cardiology
• Emergency medicine
• Family medicine
• General surgery
• Geriatrics
• Health care quality
• Integrative medicine
• Internal medicine
• OB-GYN
• Orthopedics
• Osteopathic manipulative medicine
• Psychiatry
• Sports medicine
• Women's health
• And many more!

Core rotations are available to core academic partners only.
(Core Rotations include Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, General Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Women’s Health/OBGYN, Pediatrics, Behavioral Medicine/Psychiatry)

Elective rotations may be available to non-core academic partners once core academic partners have been placed.
(Electives include specialties such as Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Urgent Care, Hematology/Oncology, Cardiology, Orthopedic Surgery, etc.)

Core academic partners

Our off-site hospitals and clinics proudly serve as clinical campuses for our core academic partners:

• University of Wisconsin Madison
• Rosalind Franklin University
• Marquette University
• Concordia University of Wisconsin
• Carroll University

Aurora also has affiliation agreements with numerous schools that are not considered Core Academic Partners. For students from those schools, a $50 processing fee is required for clinical placement.

Application process

Physician Assistant students seeking placement should have their school coordinator or clinical director submit a request on MyClinicalExchange.

Students from our core academic partners will be given priority. Submitting a request does not guarantee a placement.

For questions, please contact Jenna Kuhn.

Fees

Beginning July 1st, 2023, schools will be assessed a fee for placement, onboarding, and clinical education for each student, as follows:

• Placement and Onboarding Fee: $250.00 per student
• Education and Coordination Fee: $250.00 per student per week

Fees will be billed to and must be paid by the school. Direct payments from students are not accepted.

Student resources

Clinician Student Services is dedicated to making sure that students gaining clinical experiences at Aurora are valued, supported and given every opportunity for success. We offer health and wellbeing services, help with housing and ways to get involved in the community.

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