Post-Doctoral Nursing Fellowship in Cancer and Health Disparities
Post-Doctoral Nursing Fellowship in Cancer and Health Disparities
Job no: 497275
Position Type: Staff Full Time
Campus: UMass Boston
Department: Academic Support U-54
Date opened: Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: Eastern Standard Time
The University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston) and Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer (DF/HCC) jointly announce an innovative Nursing Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program designed to ensure a diverse and highly trained workforce to meet the national need for highly skilled nursing faculty and researchers committed to better understand and address cancer health disparities. The joint Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program between UMass Boston’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences and Phyllis F. Cantor Center for Research in Nursing and Patient Care Services at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is the only nursing post-doctoral program developed by any College/School of Nursing and a clinical partner. This program will build upon the new educational model established by the existing partnership between the two institutions, which embraces and is made stronger by interdisciplinary participation with a blend of resource sharing and talents from practice and academe. It is also the only program offered which focuses on oncology care, research, health disparities, and health policy.
Fellowship Components
- Educational training: an individualized curriculum plan that will include course work and seminar attendance addressing substantive, conceptual,