Palliative Care Fellowships

Guidelines

The Project on Death in America, in collaboration with the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation, invite proposals from new or established palliative care fellowship training programs for funding support of individual fellowships in palliative care. The goals of this jointly-funded fellowship program are to support the training of physicians in the principles and practice of palliative care, to help build capacity of fellowship programs, and to help establish palliative medicine as a recognized subspecialty of medicine.

This funding initiative is open to palliative care fellowship training programs and is not open to individual applicants. Up to six two-year palliative care fellowship program awards will be available with funding to begin July 2003.

Each award must be used to support the clinical or research training of palliative care fellows, with preference given to clinical training. Selected programs will receive up to $75,000 a year for two years, for a maximun total of $150,000. Eighty percent of each year's award must be applied to the stipend of one or more fellows, with a maximum of twenty percent of the total of each year's award available to the program and its director to support educational meetings, conferences, and expenses directly related to the fellowship training program.

Palliative care fellowship training programs may re-apply every year for one two-year award. The selected institution's palliative care fellowship program and its training director are responsible for identifying, selecting, monitoring, and evaluating fellow candidates. Candidates must be Board eligible in an ACGME-approved residency program.

Program Eligibility

This funding program is not open to individual applicants.

• Programs must be affiliated with an accredited medical school that provides an ACGME approved residency program or its equivalent.
• Programs must demonstrate efforts to conform to the fellowship standards promulgated by the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
• Programs must be in the United States.
• Programs must demonstrate evidence of ongoing institutional commitment to palliative care, and of cross-disciplinary collaborations.

Application Procedure

Full application packets must include all of the items below:

• A cover page that includes the palliative care fellowship training program director's name, name of institution, department or service, mailing address, telephone, fax, and email.
• Name of financial officer of the institution, mailing address, telephone, fax, email.
• One page abstract describing palliative care fellowship training program.
• Copy of fellowship recruiting materials and application.
• Description of selection process of fellows.
• Description of fellowship curriculum. Please be concise.
• Biosketch for all faculty.
• Description of evaluation plan for fellowship program, fellows, and graduates.
• Fellowship calendar and schedule.
• List of current fellows, if any, and how they are funded.
• List of past fellows with their current positions and institutions.
• Description of current funding sources for overall palliative care fellowship program.
• One-page budget with accompanying justification for how the funds will be spent.
• Institutional PGY salary schedule.
• Letter of support from Department Chair.
• Please send 6 application packets to the address below (one complete original and 5 identical copies). Materials sent under separate cover will not be accepted. Applications must be typed in 12-point font with standard margins. Double sided copies are encouraged. Faxed materials and emailed materials will not be accepted.

The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation

The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation was established by Emily Davie Kornfeld in 1979. Mrs. Kornfeld's personal philanthropy supported medical research in the control and treatment of pain, as well as efforts directed at enhancing individual choice in medical treatment and dying. In the last decade, the Foundation has expanded its interests to include bioethics, patient care, medical research, and education.