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Career Development Programs in Palliative Care

Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)

Palliative Care Leadership Centers (PCLC)

PCLCs provide intensive two-day training and a full year of mentoring in how to design and launch a successful program. The hands-on training is delivered by leading professionals in the field and is tailored to the institution's size, culture and needs.

CAPC Training Seminars

CAPC offers comprehensive training seminars geared to helping health care professionals develop palliative care programs in hospitals. Seminars provide practical information on drafting financial and business plans, choosing organizational and staffing models, marketing the advantages of a palliative care program internally and externally, and securing the clinical and financial outcomes data required for a successful and sustainable program.

Harvard Medical School Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice

The HMS Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice offers intensive learning experiences for physician and nurse educators who wish to become experts in the clinical practice and teaching of comprehensive, interdisciplinary palliative care, as well as gain expertise in leading and managing improvements in palliative care education and practice at their own institutions.

The Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

The Palliative Care Program at Mount Sinai Medical Center was developed as a response to the physical and emotional needs of hospitalized patients and families facing serious and life-threatening illness. The Institute was officially inaugurated in 1995 with an educational initiative funded by the Project on Death in America. Clinical services began in 1997 with the creation of an in-patient consultation service. The program, renamed the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, offers diversified educational initiatives, including a 4 year medical school curriculum integrating palliative care; three palliative care educational experiences available to residents, two palliative care training opportunities available to Geriatrics fellows, and two unique integrated palliative medicine fellowships in Hematology-Oncology/Palliative Medicine or Geriatrics/Palliative Medicine.

The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)

The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) is a national end-of-life education initiative administered by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington DC, and City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA. The project provides training for undergraduate and graduate nursing faculty, CE providers, staff development educators, pediatric and oncology-specialty nurses, and other nurses in end-of-life care so they can teach this essential information to nursing students and practicing nurses.

Click here for more information about the ELNEC-Core curriculum.

Harvard Macy Institute

Harvard Macy Institute, a collaborative effort of the Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Business School, aims to create and foster a community of scholars who work to promote innovative change in healthcare education.

Educators in the Health Professions

The goal of this program is to enhance the professional development of physicians, basic scientists and other healthcare professionals as educators. The program will combine five major themes: Learning and teaching, curriculum, evaluation, leadership, and information technology.

Leaders in Healthcare Education

Fundamental reform in healthcare education requires major organizational change in institions involved in the education of healthcare professional . In this program, educational leaders develop their own action plans for leading and managing change to fulfill their institution's educational mission.

Association of American Medical Colleges – Medical Education Research Certificate

The Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) program is designed to provide a basic foundation in research principles relevant to educational research in medical education. The program is open to all who are interested in improving their educational research skills and is targeted for those with a background in medical education but relatively less experience in conducting educational research.

Paul B. Beeson Career Development Awards in Aging Research Program

The Beeson program fosters the independent research careers of clinically trained investigators whose research and leadership are enhancing the health and quality of life of Americans, particularly older people. The program offers three- to five-year faculty development awards to outstanding junior and mid-career faculty committed to academic careers in aging related research, training and practice.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholars Program

The RWJ Program is intended to strengthen the leadership and academic productivity of junior medical school faculty who are dedicated to improving health and health care. The RWJ program offers career development awards to support outstanding junior faculty in medical school departments/divisions of family practice, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics. This program is intended to strengthen generalist physician faculty in the nation 's medical schools by improving their research capacity while maintaining their clinical and teaching competencies.

National Institutes of Health – Career Development (K) Awards

Career Development (K) awards provide support in two career tracks: Individuals with a research doctorate can pursue the following Awards: Career Transition Awards (K22), Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01), Independent Scientist Award (K02), Senior Scientist Award (K05), and the Academic Award (K07).

Individuals with a health professional doctorate and who have completed clinical training and have accepted a faculty position can pursue the following Awards: Mentored Clinical Scientist Developmental Program Award (K12), Mentored Clinical Scientist Award (K08), Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23), MidCareer Investigator in Patient-Oriented Research Award (K24), Career Enhancement Award in Stem Cell Research (K18), Academic Career Award (K07), Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award (K25), and the Midcareer Investigator Award in Mouse Pathobiology Research (K26).

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs/ Veterans Health Administration

The VA Office of Research and Development offers various opportunities for professional development. The Career Development CADE program aims to build and maintain capacity for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) clinicians to conduct research in areas of high relevance to the health care of veterans. Within Medical Research Service (MRS), the objective is to promote the professional careers of outstanding clinician scientists committed to conducting biomedical research through a mentored research training program. Three levels of CADE awards are available through MRS: Research Career Development (RCD), Advanced Research Career Development (ARCD), and Career Development Enhancement Award (CDEA). These awards are open to applicants with clinical doctoral degrees including physicians, dentists, psychologists, social workers, clinical engineers, audiologists, speech pathologist, etc.

The University of Vermont Program for Research in Medical Outcomes (PRIMO)

The UVM Program for Research in Medical Outcomes is an inter-departmental effort of the University of Vermont College of Medicine and Fletcher Allen Health Care to enhance research and teaching in the fields broadly known as Outcomes Research: Technology Assessment, Evidence-Based Medicine, Quality Improvement, and Community Action.