The Hematology/Oncology Nurse Practitioner Fellowship at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in Miami, Florida, has successfully retained 100% of its fellows, shared Jessica MacIntyre, APRN, NP-C, AOCNP.

MacIntyre, executive director of clinical operations at Sylvester, spoke with Oncology Nursing News® about how the fellowship operates and their goal as a program. She also explained that the program seeks to identify concentrations of interests for its fellows and allows them the opportunity to rotate through them as an elective.

“It’s been a great program that actually started from a gap we noticed and now we’re looking at expanding to other subspecialties. We have done a stem cell track, as well, so people who really wanted to somewhat focus just on stem cell, they still got the full rotations and experience, but at the end, and this is with every fellow if we identify an area that they like to concentrate in, the last 3 months are really for that, it’s kind of like an elective; they focus on an area they would like to subspecialize in. Or if there’s an opportunity for a job there, and they are interested, they can rotate there at the end, so they can sort of transition slowly with that group as well.”

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Jessica MacIntyre, executive director of clinical operations at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, explains how the small market for experienced oncology nurse practitioners prompted their institution to design a successful Hematology/Oncology Nurse Practitioner Fellowship.

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center’s NP Fellowship Successfully Retains 100% of Fellows 

The Hematology/Oncology Nurse Practitioner Fellowship at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in Miami, Florida, is a 52-week training program, explained Jessica MacIntyre, APRN, NP-C, AOCNP.

MacIntyre, executive director of clinical operations at Sylvester, spoke with Oncology Nursing News® about how the fellowship operates and their goal as a program. She also explained that while some nurse practitioners may want to cross over to oncology through the program, the fellowship is really geared towards recent graduates who have just been certified as nurse practitioners.

“We provide them rotations, across the health system in different subspecialties of oncology, so they can rotate through breast and GI, so they get solid tumor, hematology, stem cell, inpatient outpatient, and as an introduction, we actually have them rotate through our cancer care services, our social services, palliative care, the full scope of what it is to take care of on oncology patient and what are the resources and knowledge they need to be successful after they complete the program.”


The Hematology/Oncology Nurse Practitioner Fellowship is a yearlong program which seeks to train those who have recently received their NP certification. 


Jessica MacIntyre, APRN, NP-C, AOCNP

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