Clinical Pastoral Education/Training

Clinical Pastoral Education students will have the opportunity to:

• Visit patients and their families
• Develop spiritual assessment skills
• Respond to crises
• Meet with healthcare workers in many disciplines
• Connect patients to their spiritual communities
• Assist with sacred rituals such as anointing, baptism, or memorial services for the deceased
• Participate in weeks of spiritual emphasis twice a year
• Participate in Blessing of the Hands for nurses
• Support caregivers and healthcare team members

Adventist HealthCare offers Clinical Pastoral Education in two formats:

• Intensive CPE internships run in 12- to 14-week units that are offered three times a year. The units begin in September, January and June.
• Full-Year CPE residency is a three-unit program from September to August. This program pays a stipend.

Each 12- to 14-week unit of the CPE program requires 400 hours to complete: 100 hours of group work and 300 hours of encounters with patients, their families and staff.

The tuition cost is $650 per unit, plus a materials fee of $50 (subject to change).

1. Download and complete our CPE/T Application Form
2. Email completed applications and all required essays and evaluations to ahc-cpe@adventisthealthcare.com.

• Association for Clinical Pastoral Education/Training
• Association of Professional Chaplains
• Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries
• American Association of Pastoral Counselors
• Commission on Accreditation of Pastoral Services
• Canadian Association for Pastoral Practice and Education
• National Association of Catholic Chaplains
• National Association of Jewish Chaplains

For additional information please visit contact the Spiritual Care Department at Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center at 240-826-6112.