The Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care is excited to offer the following fellowship opportunities:
Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship Program
The Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship Program is a one-year clinical program that trains future leaders in the comprehensive, interdisciplinary care of seriously ill patients and their families.
For more information and links to apply, please visit https://www.hipcf.org/. Applications for the 2024-2025 nurse practitioner fellowships are now being accepted.
Four types of fellowships are offered:
- ACGME-accredited physician fellowships training (eight to nine fellows per year in pediatric or adult medicine)
- Three nurse practitioner fellowships that train a total of three or four fellows per year (one in pediatric palliative nursing and two or three in adult medicine palliative nursing)
- A pediatric palliative care social work fellowship that trains one fellow a year
- A palliative care pharmacy residency that trains one resident a year
Harvard Interprofessional Pediatric Palliative Care Fellowship
The Harvard Interprofessional Pediatric Palliative Care Fellowship is an innovative, clinically intensive, one-year training program that immerses postgraduate clinicians in pediatric medicine, social work, and advanced practice nursing in a truly interprofessional educational environment. The three Pediatric Fellowship opportunities include:
- The Physician (MD) fellowship is an ACGME-accredited program in Hospice and Palliative Medicine through Boston Children's Hospital. Applications open July 1st, 2025 - August 15th, 2025 and are due August 15th, 2025.
- The Nurse Practitioner (NP) fellowship provide subspecialty training in pediatric palliative care. Applications are open November 1st, 2024 - January 3rd, 2025 and are due January 3rd, 2025.
- The Social Work (SW) fellowship provides subspecialty training in pediatric palliative care. Applications open November 1st, 2024 - March 1st, 2025 and are due March 1st, 2025.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Research Fellowship in Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care
This two-year research fellowship opportunity can follow the year of clinical training. The program is directed toward physicians, psychologists, doctorally prepared nurses, social workers, and other clinicians who wish to prepare themselves for an academic research career in palliative care or psychosocial oncology. The goal of this fellowship is to train early investigators prepared to move these fields forward through the conduct of highest-quality research. A separate application is required. For more information, visit their website or contact POPCResearchFellowship@partners.org.
MGH Bridge-the-Gap T32 Fellowship Program (mghbridgethegap.org)
Bridging the Science-to-Service Gap: Prevention, Optimization and Living Well with Persistent or Serious Illness
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (T32) PROGRAM
**2025 Cohort Applications and Letters of Recommendation Due November 18, 2024**
Please email mghBridgetheGap@mgb.org
This postdoctoral fellowship program will address the pressing need for strengthening and diversifying the pipeline for well-trained clinician investigators with a specific focus on caring for older individuals or those with persistent or serious illness, and their care-partners. Fellows with a commitment to clinical and behavioral research will have the opportunities for interdisciplinary training that cuts across departments. The program instills the skills needed to initiate and lead rigorous research at the highest levels of quality. Fellows will develop mentored clinical research projects that use the NIH stage model and will receive experiential training through their mentors’ NIH-funded clinical trials.