What makes our program distinct? 

• Each student benefits from institution-arranged clinical placements, secured with trusted preceptors to match the student’s interests.
• Students are mentored by nationally recognized faculty advancing practice, research, and policy. 
• Students join a small, close-knit cohort and gain access to the robust resources and alumni network of a Top Research Institution.
• The program’s whole person health framework emphasizes the interconnectedness of factors influencing wellbeing and prepares graduates to design care models, influence policy, and lead interdisciplinary teams. 
• Education is grounded in interprofessional collaboration, with distinct opportunities to engage with colleagues across the University of Minnesota’s health sciences schools.

Our graduates are prepared to:

• Serve as clinicians, with a strong focus on providing comprehensive, patient-centered, trauma-informed women’s health and gender-related care across the lifespan. This includes preventive health, primary care, prenatal and postpartum care, menopause optimization, gender-affirming care, sexual and reproductive healthcare to people of all gender identities, and addressing common and complex gynecologic issues through the lifespan. Practice sites can include outpatient clinics, hospitals, and community health settings, including, but not limited to primary care and women’s health clinics as well as specialties of reproductive and sexual health, infertility, urogynecology, breast health, gynecology oncology, and high-risk obstetrics.
• Be educators of future nurses and nurse practitioners
• Lead systems change through application of quality improvement models, using an equity lens, to improve health and the quality and safety of care 
• Advocate for policies that increase access to care, support reproductive rights, reduce  maternal mortality and health disparities, and support the profession
• Lead interprofessional team-based care