Graduate Certificate in Palliative Care
The Palliative Care Graduate Certificate is designed for practicing healthcare professionals from nursing, medicine, social work, spiritual care, and other disciplines seeking specialty training in palliative care.
The interprofessional curriculum includes a general and a pediatrics-specific track. Both support participants in developing their expertise in three key areas of palliative care:
- Practice: person-centered communication;
- Interprofessional team training; and
- Program sustainability in their palliative care practice.
To learn more, please visit https://pctc.uw.edu/.
Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program
The University of Washington Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program offered through the Division of Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine is a one year fellowship that trains fellows to become experts in delivering palliative medicine care for severe and chronically ill patients of all ages.
There is a general and pediatrics-specific track. Both programs provide a mentored training experience in clinical skills and provide exposure to research and quality improvement for our fellows, who will become future leaders in palliative care medicine.
To learn more, please visit https://geriatrics.uw.edu/hpm-fellowship.
Palliative Care Research Fellowship Program
Program Overview
Our Palliative Care Research Fellowship Program was funded from 2015-2016. Funding for this fellowship program ended in early 2026.
Program Leadership
The T32 fellowship program was most recently directed by Drs. Erin Kross and Rashmi Sharma.
Training Environment
Fellows retained their primary mentors in addition to working with a Palliative Care T32 faculty member. The research fellowship was administered by CPCCE and fellows had the opportunity to engage in a number of formal CPCCE activities.
Training plans were individualized for each participant and focused on research. However, training may have also included a Masters degree in Epidemiology or Health Services Research.
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