Clinical Pastoral Education Progam

Why Take CPE at the Mass General

• Improve your understanding of the spiritual needs of persons in an urban acute-care hospital
• Become confident  in providing spiritual care to a diverse community
• Learn to be effective in ministering to critically ill patients and their families
• Develop your pastoral identity in a world-renowned academic medical center
• Develop better awareness of yourself in your multiple roles in ministry
• Utilize trusting learning relationships that allow you to grow and be supported
• Learn in a diverse group of students of a variety of belief systems
• Perform individualized spiritual assessments
• Learn to bring your heart and passion to your daily ministry 
• Work towards board certification in healthcare chaplaincy