About

Dartmouth Health is a nonprofit academic health system that includes Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, a 396-bed quaternary care hospital with the only Level 1 trauma center and the only air ambulance service in New Hampshire; the Norris Cotton Cancer Center; Dartmouth Health Children’s; and is affiliated with several hospitals in New Hampshire and Vermont. In partnership with the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the White River Junction Veterans Administration Medical Center in White River Junction, VT, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 residents and fellows annually and performs world-class research. Dartmouth Health is the major referral center for a large and rural catchment area that includes Vermont, New Hampshire, and parts of Maine and New York State.

Our Program:

The Dartmouth Health Hospice and Palliative Medicine Interprofessional Fellowship Advanced is a 12-month training program. Our graduates will be skilled clinicians in discussing what matters most to patients and families and providing team-based interdisciplinary care. In addition to this, they will be able to teach others how to add primary palliative care skills to their practice.

Our program has been Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited since 2008, and in 2023 we earned Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship Accreditation (APPFA) with distinction status (the first program in New England to earn this award). We have grown over the years from 1 fellow to 5 fellows.

We are one of a few programs nationally offering an interdisciplinary training program for advanced practice providers. The Palliative Care Program is offering two 1-year APP fellowships in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. The APP fellow(s) will train with physicians in the Hospice and Palliative Interprofessional Fellowship Program during the academic year. The APP fellow(s) will work closely with the physician fellows and be fully integrated into this nationally recognized palliative care service.

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics Postgraduate Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship Program is accredited with distinction as an Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship Program by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation in Practice Transition Programs.

Learn more about the Advanced Practice Provider Fellowships Accreditation