Palliative Care Fellowship
The mission of the Palliative Care Fellowship is to educate and develop MSW students who are skilled in delivering high-quality palliative and end-of-life care to individuals and families, with cultural humility and respect for patient self-determination, to contribute specialist palliative social workers to the workforce.
Fellowship Components
The Palliative Care Fellowship is for Specialist year students in the on-campus program and includes the following components:
- An internship working with seriously ill individuals and their family members in inpatient, outpatient, community-based, and hospice care settings
- Two course electives:
- Palliative Social Work
- Grief, Loss, and Bereavement
- A dedicated Field Seminar led by an experienced palliative social worker
- Support and mentoring from the Palliative Care Fellowship Director
- Half-day workshop in the Fall and one in the Spring by leaders in palliative care
- Small scholarship
Selection as a Palliative Care Fellow is competitive. The Fellows are carefully screened to select students who are clinically and academically strong and committed to a career working with seriously ill individuals and their families. The application is submitted in January in the year prior to completing the M.S.W. program.
Videos of Palliative Care Fellows
Resource Guide on Palliative and End-of-Life Care