APP Oncology Fellowship Subspecialty Tracks

The Critical Care Medicine subspecialty track is designed to provide comprehensive, multimodality training to prepare APPs for the independent management of critically ill oncology patients. The program consists of a structured educational curriculum created to enhance critical thinking in addition to clinical opportunities to manage a diverse oncology patient population in the critical care environment as well as other services throughout the institution.  
 

Track-Specific Eligibility Requirements

Applicants must be trained at the master’s level or higher as a(n):

• Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• Physician Assistant

The Geriatric Oncology subspecialty track is designed to promote comprehensive, patient-specific care to older adults with cancer. This includes a strong emphasis on understanding geriatric syndromes, promoting patient autonomy, risk stratification prior to cancer treatment, and safe care transitions. The goal of this comprehensive program is to prepare the APP to deliver efficient, safe, patient-centered, and specialized care to a diverse geriatric patient population as part of a collaborative interdisciplinary healthcare team. This fellowship subspecialty track will highlight the complex needs of older adults with cancer and provide the fellow with a comprehensive outlook on providing patient-centered care. This fellowship subspecialty track aims to prepare APPs to be outstanding clinicians and champions of the care of older adults with cancer.  
 

Track-Specific Eligibility Requirements

The Hematology/Oncology subspecialty track is designed to promote comprehensive, patient-specific care for the adult medical oncology population. The fellow will train in medical oncology practices through an educational framework and will learn to manage complex patients with various hematologic malignancies. The goal of this fellowship subspecialty track is to provide comprehensive training throughout various malignant hematology/oncology practices and the associated interdisciplinary teams to build an APP competent in this area of specialty.  
 

Track-Specific Eligibility Requirements

*Of note, this subspecialty track runs for 12 months starting at the end of June/beginning of July.

The Hospice and Palliative Care subspecialty track is designed to equip qualified, committed, creative, and caring APPs with the clinical and academic expertise to become future leaders in palliative and supportive care. Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) in this program work with members of the Supportive Care Service and train side by side with physician fellows. The interprofessional approach of the twin fellowship programs, in which NPs, PAs, and doctors train side by side in a world-renowned cancer center, ensures that graduates are uniquely prepared for collaborative care and team science. Upon completion of a fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NPs and PAs are prepared for independent practice and continued professional advancement in the palliative care subspecialty.

Track-Specific Eligibility Requirements

The Neurology/Neurosurgery subspecialty track is designed to promote practice transition and professional development for APPs serving the Neurology/Neurosurgery oncology patient population as part of a collaborative interdisciplinary healthcare team. This fellowship experience provides comprehensive and formalized training to the APP through a structured educational framework of didactic and “hands-on” experiences. With the support and guidance of an experienced leadership team, the APP fellow will develop their critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills to prepare them for independent practice as a proficient clinician in the highly specialized field of Neuro-Oncology.  
 

Track-Specific Eligibility Requirements

The Pediatric Hematology/Oncology subspecialty track is designed to provide comprehensive training with the goal of developing well-prepared Pediatric Hematology/Oncology APPs. Fellows are supported by a structured educational framework combining didactic and experiential learning to promote and advance their critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills, enabling them to provide safe, efficient, patient-centered, and specialized care to a diverse pediatric hematology/oncology patient population.  
 

**Potential option for pediatric critical care concentration  
**Rotations and rotation duration subject to change 

Track-Specific Eligibility Requirements

Applicants must be trained at the master’s level or higher as a(n):

• Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
• Family Nurse Practitioner
• Physician Assistant

The Perioperative sub-specialty track is designed to provide comprehensive training to prepare the APP Fellow to provide efficient, safe, and patient-centered preoperative, postoperative and specialized care to a diverse patient population. At MSK, the APP-driven model in a variety of inpatient and outpatient clinical care teams allows APPs to autonomously manage patients in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. Through different rotations, the APP fellow will have the opportunity to provide care throughout all phases of an oncologic patient’s surgical course.

Track-Specific Eligibility Requirements

Applicants must be trained at the master’s level or higher as a(n):

• Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• Family Nurse Practitioner
• Physician Assistant

The Psycho-Oncology subspecialty track prepares APPs to deliver thorough and specialized patient-centered care for adult psycho-oncology patients. This includes a strong focus on understanding psychiatric symptoms, adverse effects from cancer medications, behavioral emergencies, consultation-liaison psychiatry, and the interdisciplinary field of psycho-oncology. This fellowship subspecialty track highlights complex psychiatric cases in the inpatient and outpatient population, with a wide range of clinical experiences. APP fellows in the psycho-oncology track work with members of the psychiatry service and have didactic experiences alongside other APP and physician fellows. In addition, APP fellows are exposed to a variety of related specialties to allow for collaborative critical thinking. This fellowship subspecialty track provides APP fellows the opportunity to grow to be exceptional clinicians, develop academic expertise, and become future leaders in the field.

Track-Specific Eligibility Requirements

The Solid Tumor Medical Oncology subspecialty track is designed to promote comprehensive, patient-specific care for the adult medical oncology population. The fellow will train in medical oncology practices through an educational framework and will learn to manage complex medical oncology patients. The goal of this subspecialty track is to provide comprehensive training throughout the various medical oncology practices and the associated interdisciplinary teams to build an APP competent in this subspecialty.

Track-Specific Eligibility Requirements

The Surgical Oncology subspecialty track is designed to provide comprehensive surgical training with the goal of developing independent first assist surgical skills in variety of specialties. The core rotations will focus on time in the operating room and the development of surgical skills. The second half of the fellowship the APP fellow may choose to continue with the general surgical oncology curriculum or choose a concentration. Most time spent during the concentration is in the operating room, but there will also be exposure to outpatient surgical clinics and inpatient care to provide a comprehensive learning experience.  The concentrations currently offered are: (1) Minimally Invasive Surgery and (2) Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery.
 

Track-Specific Eligibility Requirements

Applicants must be trained at the master’s level or higher as a(n):

• Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner with First Assist Certification
• Family Nurse Practitioner with First Assist Certification
• Physician Assistant