In the recent decade, public attention on the work of care
for the terminally ill has greatly increased, largely through government
funding of such work. The American Board
of Medical Specialties approved palliative medicine as a new medical specialty
in 2006, followed by the first board certification granted for physicians in
palliative medicine in 2008. Clinical
Chaplaincy has been an integral part of this emerging model of care. In response, CPSP has developed a
subspecialty certification for Board Certified Clinical Chaplains, “Board
Certified Clinical Fellow in Hospice and Palliative Care” (FHPC). This will
be a subspecialty credential for those first credentialed as Board Certified
Clinical Chaplains (BCCC) or Board Certified Pastoral Counselors (BCPC).
Procedure:
CPSP
Chapters will receive requests from candidates for this certification, and
will review the request. The candidate
for FHPC subspecialty certification may download the application which is available
on the Documents page of our website at http://www.pastoralreport.com/documents.html. The completed
application, along with the Chapter’s endorsement letter, and a
one- time certification fee of $100 should be sent to the CPSP Hospice and
Palliative Care Certification Committee for review. Board Certified Chaplains holding credentials
with certifying bodies other than CPSP are eligible for certification providing
that the CPSP certification standards for the subspecialty credential of Board
Certified Fellow in Hospice and Palliative Care are met.
If you have any questions regarding this credential, please
contact Barbara A. McGuire, CPSP Registrar at the following link: cpspregistrar@gmail.com