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This is a combined Integrative Medicine and Pain & Palliative Care clinical and research fellowship. The fellowship is a two- or three-year fellowship that will provide the required year of pain and palliative care training intermixed with one or two years of training in integrative medicine.
Training and certification in acupuncture is included; observation and training in mind-body therapies, massage therapy, and other complementary therapies will be offered along with training in the more traditional means of pain management and other symptom control. Opportunities for clinical research in these and related areas, as well as laboratory research in herbs and other botanicals, is offered.
Closely mentored training in clinical care and research is provided by a multidisciplinary faculty with expertise in treatment decision making, pain and other symptom management, clinical and laboratory research, survivorship and pain/palliative care. The didactic curriculum emphasizes foundations for understanding physical and emotional problems faced by cancer patients, assessment techniques, recent and classic publications in the area, research design methodology, research ethics and professional skills development necessary for successful academic work. This joint fellowship, supported by NIH, is the first of its kind. It aims to broaden the scope of practice and research capability of those interested in pain and symptom management. Fellows will learn to encompass the integrated approach to cancer care required by patients today. This fellowship is supported by the first NCI Integrative Oncology T-32 grant.
- Program Director
- Barrie R. Cassileth, MS, PhD
- Application Deadline
- Rolling Admission
- Length of Program
- 2-3 years
- Eligibility
- This postdoctoral fellowship is open to MD or MD/PhD candidates in pain and palliative care, internal medicine, hematology/oncology, family medicine, neurology, anesthesiology, and other related disciplines.
- Number of Positions
- 2
- How To Apply
Applicants should complete the application packet as follows:
- Submit a current curriculum vita
- Three letters of reference (department chairman, division chief [residency, program director], clinical or thesis Supervisor)
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering application form. (This is a pdf file.)
- Contact
- Barrie R. Cassileth, MS, PhD
- E-mail
- cassileth@mskcc.org
- Phone
- 212-639-4915
- Fax
- 212-639-4953
- Address
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
1429 First Avenue at 74th Street
New York, NY 10021 USA
