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. We hope that this depth of exposure and teaching can prepare our fellows for their careers as palliative care ambassadors and leaders.

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. 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 colleagues at LPCH are in the process of developing a pediatric hospice and palliative care fellowship. 

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 bever 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.