CHAPLAINCY

Clinical Pastoral Education with Focus on Healthcare Providers

The Fall and Winter Extended Units at the MGH Chaplaincy Department are open to persons from many vocations in healthcare. Healthcare Providers learn to integrate skills of spiritual caregiving into their clinical work within their own disciplines.

Program Content

This CPE program focuses on following areas:

• Initiating, deepening, and ending meaningful relationships in the clinical context
• Performing individualized assessment skills
• Integrating spiritual caregiving into participants’ professional practice
• Learning about spiritual and religious diversity

The method for this learning is theological and existential reflection on actual experiences of spiritual caregiving. The program includes written reflections, case presentations, program seminars, group process sessions, and individual supervision, as well as clinical work with patients and families in an area negotiated with the CPE Supervisor.

Calendar

Fall 2010 Calendar
The 2010 fall unit will begin on September 7 and will run through December 20, with graduation on December 20. Applications are accepted after May 1, 2010.

Participants commit 25 hours/week in a program that will extend over 16 weeks. Group sessions will be held each Monday from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Students who choose the full unit of credit provide spiritual care to patients/families an additional 18 hours each week beyond the Monday commitment, either in their own work context and or as a Chaplain Intern on an MGH patient unit assigned by the supervisor. This may be day or evening, weekday or weekend time. Students opting for the half unit of credit spend at least 8 hours/week beyond the Monday commitment in the direct practice of spiritual caregiving. Each student also schedules one supervisory hour each week with the CPE Supervisor.

Winter 2011 Calendar
The 2011 winter unit starts on January 10 and will run through May 16, with graduation on May 19. Applications are accepted after September 1, 2010.

Participants commit 22 hours/week in a program that will extend over 19 weeks. Group sessions will be held each Monday from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., excluding Martin Luther King Day on January 17 and on the Monday during the week of Passover (April 17). Students who choose the full unit of credit provide spiritual care to patients/families an additional 14 hours each week beyond the Monday commitment, either in their own work context and or as a Chaplain Intern on an MGH patient unit assigned by the supervisor. This may be day or evening, weekday or weekend time. Students opting for the half unit of credit spend at least 7 hours/week beyond the Monday commitment in the direct practice of spiritual caregiving. Each student also schedules one supervisory hour each week with the CPE Supervisor.

Accreditation

The Fall and Winter Extended Unit with Focus on Healthcare Providers is accredited by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc. (ACPE), 1549 Clairmont Road, Suite 103, Georgia 30033-4611, phone:403-320-1472, fax: 403-320-0849; www.acpe.edu.
The Rev. Angelika Zollfrank, ACPE Supervisor, serves as Interfaith Chaplain and Director of the Clinical Pastoral Education programs at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Cost

The tuition for the CPE unit is a total of $875. The first $75 of the cost is a non-refundable application fee. Except for Fellowship awardees, a non-refundable deposit of $100 assures a place upon acceptance into the program, leaving the remaining $600.00 of tuition payable on the first day of the program.
Students with Fellowship funding for the CPE unit make all financial arrangements for the unit with their CPE Supervisor.

Admission Requirements

The CPE unit is open to persons from any discipline who work directly with patients/families in a healthcare setting and who wish to integrate skills of spiritual caregiving into their professional practice.

Fellowships

Fellowships for this CPE unit are available to healthcare providers from disciplines other than Pastoral Care. The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center annually offers fellowships to support six healthcare providers in the program. Partners employees as well as others may apply for these. The MGH Department of Nursing annually offers fellowships to support two experienced MGH RN’s in this program.
All Fellowship applications are due May 20, 2010 for the 2010 Fall unit and after September 1, 2010 for the 2011 Winter program.

Applications

Fellowship applicants contact the MGH Chaplaincy Department at 617-726-4774 for appropriate CPE Fellowship applications. Please note that acceptance into the program is provisional pending a successful CORI check, and MGH Occupational Health screening.
Completed applications, including a non-refundable check for $75.00 (payable to MGH CPE Fund) should be submitted to:

Rev. Angelika Zollfrank
CPE Supervisor
Chaplaincy Department
Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit Street, Founders 624G
Boston, MA 02114
For additional questions please call: (617) 726-4774.