The Stanford University Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship is a one-year ACGME accredited training program. We have a broad range of clinical sites spanning an inpatient hospice unit, a safety net hospital, community hospital experience, an academic medical center, long term care, home based care, and hospice to equip our graduates to work across the spectrum of our field as members of interdisciplinary teams. Our fellows also participate in community facing education sessions about advance care planning and palliative care.

Our graduates have had a variety of specialty backgrounds including anesthesiology, emergency medicine, critical care, family medicine, geriatrics, gynecology-oncology, hematology-oncology, internal medicine, neurology, and surgery. Our faculty also comes from a wide range of specialties and interests in clinical care, medical education, research, and community outreach. We hope that this depth of exposure and teaching can prepare our fellows for their careers as palliative care ambassadors and leaders no matter what career path they choose. 

We hope these pages give you a glimpse into our training experience. Thank you for your interest in our fellowship program.

-- Shireen N. Heidari, MD,  Program Director