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Welcome to the Spiritual Care Center at St. Mark’s Hospital.
For more than 35 years, the Spiritual Care Center at St. Mark's Hospital has been providing ACPE CPETM to professional chaplains, seminary students, community clergy, lay people and health care providers. [The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE): The Standard for Spiritual Care that is accredited by the U.S. Department of Education.] |
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The depth of our CPE training equips students to strengthen the spiritual health of people in their care as well as in themselves. Following completion of CPE training, we encourage our graduates to join a spiritual care team and seek to increase the level of excellence in the growing field of spiritual care.
Our students and staff represent a variety of ethnicities, faith traditions, cultural groups, races and sexual orientations. They are trained to be empathic listeners as patients, their families and staff members explore end-of-life decision making, emotional and relational tensions, difficult diagnoses and other life issues that emerge in the course of a hospital stay. Our CPE students offer conversations, religious rituals, referrals and support to those of all faiths and of no faith. They offer a comforting presence and listening ear for the things that matter most. They create relationships with community faith leaders to respond to a patient's specific faith needs.
Chaplains are an integral part of the patient care team at St. Mark's and the other hospitals we serve. They attend rounds, participate in interdisciplinary team and family meetings and nursing cohorts. They serve patients in the Behavioral Health Unit, in the Acute Rehabilitation Center, parents of infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) as well as regular in-patient and Emergency Department patients. Our chaplains bring Arts in Health to patients and staff, participate in the Clinical Ethics Committee and Ethics Consultations.
In all these ways and more, Chaplains learn to bring a spiritual perspective to a patient's or hospital staff member's personal life and health.
Our students and staff represent a variety of ethnicities, faith traditions, cultural groups, races and sexual orientations. They are trained to be empathic listeners as patients, their families and staff members explore end-of-life decision making, emotional and relational tensions, difficult diagnoses and other life issues that emerge in the course of a hospital stay. Our CPE students offer conversations, religious rituals, referrals and support to those of all faiths and of no faith. They offer a comforting presence and listening ear for the things that matter most. They create relationships with community faith leaders to respond to a patient's specific faith needs.
Chaplains are an integral part of the patient care team at St. Mark's and the other hospitals we serve. They attend rounds, participate in interdisciplinary team and family meetings and nursing cohorts. They serve patients in the Behavioral Health Unit, in the Acute Rehabilitation Center, parents of infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) as well as regular in-patient and Emergency Department patients. Our chaplains bring Arts in Health to patients and staff, participate in the Clinical Ethics Committee and Ethics Consultations.
In all these ways and more, Chaplains learn to bring a spiritual perspective to a patient's or hospital staff member's personal life and health.
We are accepting Intern applications for the following Units:
Please note that we DO require an undergraduate degree, or equivalency, to apply.
The degree does not need to be religion based.
Summer, 2021 (June 1 - August 19, 2021)
Schedule: 10 hours of class time split on Tuesday and Thursday plus 21 clinical hours in the hospital setting each week
Students participate in 11 weekday on-call overnight shifts - plus 2 weekend on-call shifts at the hospital
Fall 2021 (August 31 - December 16, 2021)
Schedule: 10 hours class time split on Tuesday and Thursday plus 15 clinical hours in the hospital setting each week
Students participate in 8 weekday on-call overnight shifts and 3 weekend on-call shifts at the hospital
Extended "Evening" Unit (August 31, 2021 to mid-April, 2022)
Schedule: Includes weekly class on Wednesdays from 4-7:30 pm plus 8 weekly clinical hours in the hospital setting which can be scheduled
based on the student's availability. Students participate in 12 weekday on-call overnight shifts and 3 weekend on-call shifts at the hospital
Winter 2022 (January - April schedule (still TBD) for 16 weeks)
Schedule: 10 hours class time split on Tuesday and Thursday plus 15 clinical in the hospital setting each week
In addition, students participate in 8 weekday on-call overnight shifts and 3 weekend on-call shifts at the hospital
(Note: The number of overnight and weekend shifts may flex pending the number of students in each unit and other variables)
We are accepting Resident applications with Unit start dates in Fall 2021, Winter 2022, and future units. Residencies are one-year commitments and include $32,000-$35,000 in cash compensation (with pension) and a healthy medical benefits package. If you are interested in applying for residency, we urge you to submit your application now. Consideration will be given for timing of the application receipt and confirmed commitment to the program.
(Note: Applicants should have an undergraduate degree or equivalency to apply. A Masters of Divinity or equivalent is preferred but not required. Applicants must have completed one CPE Unit prior to residency. Due to the possible lengthy wait for the start of a residency, you may apply prior to the completion of the CPE Unit. Once the CPE Unit is completed, one Supervisory Final and one Verbatim from a CPE Unit should be added to your application.
Example weekly resident schedule:
Sunday-Thursday, Monday-Friday, or Tuesday-Saturday schedule options from 8:30am-5:00pm. Includes 10 class hours plus 25 clinical hours each week. Requires one on-call night every two weeks and one weekend on-call per six weeks of class (on-call may become one night per week at times pending class size and Unit).
Please note that we DO require an undergraduate degree, or equivalency, to apply.
The degree does not need to be religion based.
Summer, 2021 (June 1 - August 19, 2021)
Schedule: 10 hours of class time split on Tuesday and Thursday plus 21 clinical hours in the hospital setting each week
Students participate in 11 weekday on-call overnight shifts - plus 2 weekend on-call shifts at the hospital
Fall 2021 (August 31 - December 16, 2021)
Schedule: 10 hours class time split on Tuesday and Thursday plus 15 clinical hours in the hospital setting each week
Students participate in 8 weekday on-call overnight shifts and 3 weekend on-call shifts at the hospital
Extended "Evening" Unit (August 31, 2021 to mid-April, 2022)
Schedule: Includes weekly class on Wednesdays from 4-7:30 pm plus 8 weekly clinical hours in the hospital setting which can be scheduled
based on the student's availability. Students participate in 12 weekday on-call overnight shifts and 3 weekend on-call shifts at the hospital
Winter 2022 (January - April schedule (still TBD) for 16 weeks)
Schedule: 10 hours class time split on Tuesday and Thursday plus 15 clinical in the hospital setting each week
In addition, students participate in 8 weekday on-call overnight shifts and 3 weekend on-call shifts at the hospital
(Note: The number of overnight and weekend shifts may flex pending the number of students in each unit and other variables)
We are accepting Resident applications with Unit start dates in Fall 2021, Winter 2022, and future units. Residencies are one-year commitments and include $32,000-$35,000 in cash compensation (with pension) and a healthy medical benefits package. If you are interested in applying for residency, we urge you to submit your application now. Consideration will be given for timing of the application receipt and confirmed commitment to the program.
(Note: Applicants should have an undergraduate degree or equivalency to apply. A Masters of Divinity or equivalent is preferred but not required. Applicants must have completed one CPE Unit prior to residency. Due to the possible lengthy wait for the start of a residency, you may apply prior to the completion of the CPE Unit. Once the CPE Unit is completed, one Supervisory Final and one Verbatim from a CPE Unit should be added to your application.
Example weekly resident schedule:
Sunday-Thursday, Monday-Friday, or Tuesday-Saturday schedule options from 8:30am-5:00pm. Includes 10 class hours plus 25 clinical hours each week. Requires one on-call night every two weeks and one weekend on-call per six weeks of class (on-call may become one night per week at times pending class size and Unit).