CHAPLAINCY
Winter Extended Unit with Focus on Healthcare Providers
The Winter Extended Unit at the MGH Chaplaincy Department is 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:
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
Students commit 22 hours/week to the program, which begins in January and ends in May. Group sessions will be held each Monday, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., excluding Martin Luther King Day and the Monday during the Passover Period. Students will provide spiritual care to patients/families for 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. Each student also schedules a biweekly supervisory hour. In addition, students who are electing to serve as Chaplain Interns also participate in the Chaplaincy Department’s on-call ministry.
Accreditation
The 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 $625.00 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 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 offers fellowships to support two experienced MGH RN’s in this program.
All Fellowship applications are due September 1, prior to the year of the 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.