HPM Fellowship Overview

The Stanford University Palliative Fellowship has a broad range of clinical partnership sites, and our faculty and staff have a range of specialties and interests in clinical care, medical education, research, and community outreach. Our mission is to train future generations of creative and dedicated hospice and palliative care clinicians, educators, and leaders who will provide excellent team-based care to all people with serious illness, across clinical settings and in partnership with the communities we serve.

We hope you’ll consider our program for your fellowship training. We accept applications from candidates with at least 3 years postgraduate training in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, psychiatry, and surgery at any stage of their careers. Incoming fellows receive stipend based on the clinical years of residency training. For full benefits information please go to the GME page for details. Additional information about well-being resources such as covered confidential counseling are detailed on the GME Well Being page and WellMD resource pages. You can also find a sample contract and housestaff policies on the Stanford GME website. 

Our fellowship is focused on adult hospice and palliative medicine and our fellows spend the majority of their core rotations and electives at SCVMC, the Palo Alto VA, and Stanford. Our pediatric colleagues at LPCH are launching a pediatric palliative care fellowship in July 2026 - see their website for more information. We are excited to collaborate on shared educational opportunities for fellows in both programs. 

Why specialize in Hospice and Palliative Care? Our field is growing rapidly and expanding to earlier palliative care integration as medical systems grapple with how to care for people with serious illness at all stages, how to manage refractory symptoms, and have conversations about what matters most. There will never be enough fellowship trained specialists, and each of us will have the opportunity and responsibility to teach primary palliative care skills and be ambassadors for the field across specialties. Many of our fellowship graduates have stepped directly into leadership roles after graduation.