Build the healthcare workforce you need—from within.
ICATAP partners with hospitals, clinics, and healthcare systems to create high-quality apprenticeship programs that develop local talent, strengthen workforce pipelines, and prepare employees for nationally recognized certification.
Talk With ICATAP Explore ProgramsApprenticeship is more than training.
It is workforce strategy.
ICATAP was created to help healthcare employers address persistent staffing shortages by building a sustainable pipeline of trained professionals directly inside their organizations.
Recruit Local Talent
Hire candidates from your community and create an accessible pathway into healthcare careers.
Train in Your Environment
Apprentices gain hands-on experience in the workflows, culture, and standards of your own organization.
Retain Your Investment
Create a workforce pipeline designed around long-term employment rather than temporary staffing solutions.
Healthcare workforce development built around the employer.
ICATAP — Innovative Career and Technical Apprenticeship Programs is a Cable, Wisconsin-based organization specializing in employer-based healthcare education and apprenticeship partnerships.
Our model is designed around the realities of hospitals and clinics: employees continue working while completing structured education, gaining hands-on experience within their own organization, and preparing for applicable national certification pathways. ICATAP works alongside healthcare leaders, managers, clinical educators, mentors, and apprentices to help make workforce development a sustainable internal strategy.
Education designed to connect directly to clinical practice.
Our programs combine structured academic coursework with employer-led, on-the-job skill development.
MA Apprenticeship
A comprehensive pathway that helps hospitals and clinics train Medical Assistants while apprentices earn wages and build real-world clinical experience.
- Online coursework
- Clinical skill development
- Progress monitoring
- Board preparation
- Employer partnership
- Completion documentation
Surgical Tech Apprenticeship
Build Surgical Technologists from within your hospital through structured education, supervised clinical experience, and preparation for eligible national certification pathways.
- Academic curriculum
- Hospital-based training
- Clinical mentorship
- Board preparation
- Program support
- Workforce pipeline
Stop competing for the same limited workforce.
Traveler and agency staffing can fill an immediate need, but it does not create a pipeline. ICATAP helps employers turn workforce development into an internal strategy.
- Reduce dependence on traveler and agency staff
- Create a repeatable “grow your own” hiring pathway
- Standardize education across locations
- Track apprentice progress and engagement
- Support board readiness and professional advancement
- Strengthen rural and community-based workforce retention
Your healthcare organization knows the workforce it needs.
ICATAP gives you the educational structure to build it.
We partner with your leadership, clinical educators, managers, and mentors so apprenticeship becomes part of your workforce strategy—not a separate academic program operating outside of it.
Real outcomes from healthcare apprenticeship partnerships.
To protect partner confidentiality, organization names are anonymized below.
The results reflect ICATAP partner organizations and demonstrate how employer-based apprenticeship can support workforce growth, retention, and long-term staffing stability.
National Board Pass Rates
ICATAP apprentices are supported with structured coursework, board preparation, and review resources designed to help them enter certification testing prepared and confident.
| Partner | 2025 Apprentices Enrolled | Retention Beyond 90 Days |
|---|---|---|
| Clinic A | 2 | 50% |
| Clinic B | 15 | 100% |
| Clinic C | 22 | 91% |
| Clinic D | 25 | 84% |
| Clinic E | 15 | 100% |
Long-Term Partner Performance — Clinic F
One long-term healthcare partner has shown substantial improvement in apprentice retention as its program matured. The data below reflects annual apprenticeship outcomes from 2021 through 2025.
| Year | Total Apprentices | Total Exits | Exits < 90 Days | Exits > 90 Days | Exit Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Pilot | 11 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 45% |
| 2021–2022 | 42 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 36% |
| 2023 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 23% |
| 2024 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13% |
| 2025 | 54 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5.5% |
As the program became more established, Clinic F experienced stronger retention and fewer exits. By 2025, only 3 of 54 apprentices exited, with 94.5% remaining in the program beyond 90 days. The improvement coincided with more established candidate screening, onboarding, support systems, and integration of apprenticeship into daily clinic operations.
Built to work in the real healthcare environment.
Feedback from leaders who have supported apprentices within their organizations.
“The ICATAP program has been an exceptional resource for our apprentices, providing the opportunity to gain valuable on-the-job experience while completing their coursework from the convenience of their homes. This flexible learning model has allowed employees to effectively balance their hands-on training with virtual classroom instruction.”
“Our MA Apprentice learning experiences have been fantastic through ICATAP. The apprentices are well educated, supported, & prepared.
The program is manageable so that the employee/apprentice is able to work full time in our clinic while enrolled.
The ICATAP team is very responsive, supportive, flexible, and communication is beyond expectation.
What ICATAP has been able to provide for our healthcare organization is invaluable. It has made our clinic team stronger and we are grateful for the partnership we have with them.”
What could ICATAP build for your organization?
Let's talk about your staffing needs, internal training resources, and the apprenticeship partnership that best fits your healthcare organization.
Schedule a ConsultationChoose the partnership that fits your organization.
These pricing options are designed specifically for ICATAP Medical Assistant apprenticeship programs. From structured online education to comprehensive program support, each level is built around your organization's internal resources, workforce needs, and desired level of ICATAP involvement.
Basic
A streamlined option for healthcare organizations that already have the internal resources to manage most hands-on training and apprentice support.
- Apprentice orientation with employer partner
- Self-paced online ICATAP curriculum
- Electronic certificate and transcripts
- Weekly apprentice progress tracking
- Structured 6-month program
- Access to ICATAP educational resources
- 14-day apprentice replacement benefit*
Premium
A higher-support partnership that combines ICATAP education with more frequent monitoring, board preparation, manager touchpoints, and employer training resources.
- Everything in Basic
- Priority apprentice email and phone support
- Enhanced national board preparation
- Weekly general progress reporting
- Monthly check-in Zoom meeting
- 90-day apprentice evaluation
- Enhanced mentor/preceptor toolkit
- Live virtual Train-the-Trainer instruction
- Employer implementation resources
- Grant assistance guidance
- Structured 6-month program
- 45-day apprentice replacement benefit*
Premium Plus
Our most comprehensive partnership for employers that want ICATAP to manage the educational tracking, apprentice support, trainer development, and program oversight throughout the apprenticeship.
- Everything in Premium
- Instructor-led weekly apprentice Zoom instruction
- Priority + instructor-enhanced apprentice support
- Clinical competency checklists
- Electronic and hard-copy certificates and transcripts
- Comprehensive national board coaching until passed
- ICATAP manages apprentice progress tracking and follow-up, reducing the day-to-day tracking burden on managers
- Customized apprentice progress reporting
- High-presence intervention and remediation coaching
- 90-day and 6-month apprentice evaluations
- Skills book customization
- Limited module scheduling customization
- Live mentor/preceptor training
- Trainer coaching support
- Comprehensive annual program review with recommendations
- Customized employer implementation support
- Active grant consultation
- Structured 12-month program
- Executive leadership strategy sessions
- 90-day apprentice replacement benefit*
Flexible support for your Surgical Technologist apprenticeship program.
Choose the level of ICATAP support that best fits your organization's clinical training resources, management capacity, and workforce development goals.
Basic
A streamlined option for healthcare organizations that already have the internal resources to manage most hands-on training and apprentice support.
- Apprentice orientation with employer partner
- Self-paced online ICATAP curriculum
- Electronic certificate and transcripts
- Weekly apprentice progress tracking
- Structured 12-month program
- Access to ICATAP educational resources
- 14-day apprentice replacement benefit*
Premium
A higher-support partnership that combines ICATAP education with more frequent monitoring, board preparation, manager touchpoints, and employer training resources.
- Everything in Basic
- Priority apprentice email and phone support
- Enhanced national board preparation
- Weekly general progress reporting
- Monthly check-in Zoom meeting
- 90-day apprentice evaluation
- Enhanced mentor/preceptor toolkit
- Live virtual Train-the-Trainer instruction
- Employer implementation resources
- Grant assistance guidance
- Structured 12-month program
- 45-day apprentice replacement benefit*
Premium Plus
Our most comprehensive partnership for employers that want ICATAP to manage educational tracking, apprentice support, trainer development, and program oversight throughout the apprenticeship.
- Everything in Premium
- Instructor-led weekly apprentice Zoom instruction
- Priority + instructor-enhanced apprentice support
- Clinical competency checklists
- Electronic and hard-copy certificates and transcripts
- Comprehensive national board coaching until passed
- ICATAP manages apprentice progress tracking and follow-up, reducing the day-to-day tracking burden on managers
- Customized apprentice progress reporting
- High-presence intervention and remediation coaching
- 90-day and 6-month apprentice evaluations
- Skills book customization
- Limited module scheduling customization
- Live mentor/preceptor training
- Trainer coaching support
- Comprehensive annual program review with recommendations
- Customized employer implementation support
- Active grant consultation
- Structured 12-month program
- Executive leadership strategy sessions
- 90-day apprentice replacement benefit*
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