Palliative APRN fellowships are one-year programs focused on training and education. These fellowships will include:
- Orientation to palliative nursing, the history of palliative nursing, nursing leadership
- Ongoing education and lectures
- Clinical experience mentored by an APRN
- APRN role development, supervised by an APRN
- A project that includes a presentation, a quality initiative activity, and an article that includes a patient case study
- Research, which is optional but often focuses on a quality improvement project.
All current palliative care APRN fellowships occur within an academic setting, usually within a teaching hospital.
While every attempt has been made to verify current information on the fellowship program listed below, changes to application requirements and other details may be different than those listed.
Program List
Atrium Health (Charlotte, NC)
Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship
A one-year, post-graduate fellowship program is appropriate for new NP and PA graduates, as well as experienced APPs wishing to change discipline or career paths.
Dartmouth Health (Lebanon, NH)
Dartmouth Health Hospice and Palliative Medicine Interprofessional Fellowship
An accredited Advanced Practice Provider fellowship that offers 2 spots to train alongside 3 physician post-graduate trainees at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. The program offers a rigorous 12-month training experience that will help launch your career as an advanced practice provider in Palliative Care.
Emory (Atlanta, GA)
Hospice and Palliative APP Fellowship
The goal of the fellowship is to train clinicians who will be leaders in Palliative Medicine clinical care, research/quality improvement, and education.
Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)
Adult & Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Fellowship
Adult and pediatric nurse fellows join the entire Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship cohort for a robust academic curriculum which includes: classroom lectures by expert interprofessional clinicians, completion of a quality improvement projects, teaching experience for small group clinician education, and preparing Palliative Care Grand Rounds podium lecture. Mentoring by nurse preceptors and interprofessional faculty enhance the fellow’s integration of concepts into specialty nursing practice.
Maine Center for Palliative Medicine (Lewiston, ME)
Year-Long Program
Affiliate of Androscoggin Home Healthcare and Hospice
15 Strawberry Avenue
Lewiston, ME 04240
Contact: Brianne Genschel
Practice Manager
(207) 777-7740
MedStar Health (Washington, DC)
Palliative Nurse Practitioner Fellowship
The MedStar Health Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner Fellowship is a one-year program (July–June) in which a nurse practitioner fellow has the unique opportunity to engage in interprofessional education at a large tertiary hospital serving a diverse population.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY)
Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA) Fellowship – Hospice and Palliative Care
The mission of the Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Care is to equip qualified, committed, creative, and caring APPs with the clinical and academic expertise to become future leaders in palliative and supportive care.
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, The James Cancer Hospital (Columbus, OH)
James Oncology and Acute Critical Care Fellowship Program for Advanced Practice Providers
The palliative APP fellowship focuses on symptomatic support and end-of-life care in a primarily adult population within the inpatient and outpatient settings at a large academic medical center and dedicated cancer center. Rotations will provide the fellow with exposure to a broad range of diagnoses and clinical settings.
St. Luke's University Health Network (Bethlehem, PA)
St. Luke’s Hospice & Palliative Medicine Advanced Practitioner Fellowship
This fellowship is designed to equip qualified, committed, and caring nurse practitioners and/or physician assistants with the clinical and academic expertise to become future leaders in hospice & palliative medicine. Advanced practitioners in this program work with members of our hospice and palliative team and train side-by-side with physician fellows in our hospice and palliative medicine physician fellowship program.
University of Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor, MI)
Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Program in Hospice and Palliative Care
The purpose of the Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner (NP) fellowship training program at Michigan Medicine is to promote excellence in palliative care education, to develop experts in the field, and to ensure patients with serious illness receive evidence-based, high-quality patient-centered care.
University of Texas Southwestern (Dallas, TX)
Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship Palliative Care
The UT Southwestern Palliative Medicine APP Fellowship is a 12-month intensive program that provides advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants a range of educational opportunities, including didactic, simulation, and clinical training.
University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT)
Advanced Practice Clinician (APC) Palliative Care Fellowship
This one-year fellowship is an interprofessional postgraduate program. Advanced Practice Clinician (APC) fellows will train with physician co-fellows participating in educational and research opportunities. Clinical rotations include but are not limited to inpatient and outpatient consultative services, home hospice services, integrative medicine, and pain service. The APC will have clinical opportunities to practice in rural communities in Utah, as well as rotate through behavioral mental health services.
