Fellowship Programs

Funding

Funding for fellowship programs is a significant need. Both GME funding and philanthropic sources are possible solutions. The resources below are intended to provide information about funding for fellowship directors.

Overview of the Financing of Graduate Medical Education
Clare, F. Lawrence 2003

Essentials of Medicare GME Financing for Hospital-based Training Programs

Fact Sheet of CMS Guidelines for Teaching Physicians

Members-only resource: A presentation on GME Funding from the March 2007 Fellowship Program Summit and an example of institutional procedures for increasing fellowship positions are available in the members-only section of the AAHPM Web site. Click here and login to the members-only section to access these helpful resources.

Grant Funding

With the generous support of a $1.2 million grant from the Hearst Foundations Aging Initiative, AAHPM is pleased to announce funding support for fellowship training programs over a three year period. Applications are available for accredited hospice and palliative medicine fellowship programs to apply for the 2012 academic year. In each of the three years, up to ten (10) programs will each receive partial support for one year to train physicians interested in caring for the aging, or older population, and becoming mentors, educators and role models.

AAHPM congratulates the following institutions who received Hearst Foundations Aging Initiative Grant Award for the 2012-2013 academic year:

Duke University
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Northwestern University
San Diego Hospice & the Institute for Palliative Medicine / Scripps Mercy Hospital
Summa Health System
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Chicago
University of Colorado Denver
University of Rochester Medical Center
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

AAHPM thanks the Hearst Foundation for their generous grant and the Fellowship Grant Task Force for defining, managing and determining grant program requirements, application criteria, selection process and evaluation methods.

Find more information on eligibility, funding priorities and an application. The application deadline has now passed for 2011.

AAHPM thanks the Hearst Foundation for their generous grant and the Fellowship Grant Task Force for defining, managing and determining grant program requirements, application criteria, selection process and evaluation methods.

Related Sites

The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)