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Chaplain Internship Programs

NYU Langone Health's core mission is a trifold commitment to care, teach, and discover, aiming to provide world-class, patient-centered care, educate future healthcare leaders, and advance medical research. At NYU Langone, our commitment to teaching future healthcare professionals extends to spiritual care and our chaplain internship programs and we offer full- and part-time options.

“Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is interfaith professional education for ministry. It brings theological students and ministers of all faiths (pastors, priests, rabbis, imams and others) into supervised encounter with persons in crisis. Out of an intense involvement with persons in need, and the feedback from peers and teachers, students develop new awareness of themselves as persons and of the needs of those to whom they minister. From theological reflection on specific human situations, they gain a new understanding of ministry. Within the interdisciplinary team process of helping persons, they develop skills in interpersonal and interprofessional relationships.”

After a thorough orientation, chaplain interns are assigned to clinical units to provide spiritual care to patients, families, and staff. Interns are supervised by educators and supported by preceptors and mentors.

They learn to:

  • Develop a deeper awareness of self and others, including emotional availability and appropriate self-disclosure
  • Listen to and engage patients and their loved ones through empathic reflection
  • Build rapport and respond effectively to verbal and nonverbal communication
  • Demonstrate a solid range of pastoral interventions, including conflict resolution and crisis management
  • Minister respectfully to a diverse population, attending to cultural and ethnic needs
  • Use religious and spiritual resources appropriately
  • Integrate theology and the behavioral sciences in spiritual care
  • Establish collaborative relationships with medical personnel and authorities
  • Self-supervise through realistic assessment of one’s pastoral functioning
  • How to establish collaborative relationships with medical personnel and authorities
  • How to self-supervise through realistic assessment of one’s pastoral functioning

Chaplain Internship Program at NYU Langone

Our chaplain internship program is open to ministers of all faiths, theological students, qualified laypersons, and any professionals who are engaged in related work or studies. Interns are required to spend 400 supervised hours of ministry practice, including 300 hours on clinical work plus 100 hours in the classroom and on individual supervision.

Our part-time units, held in spring and fall, both require 18 hours per week of clinical visits, done on a flexible schedule. The spring extended unit lasts from early January to early May, and the fall extended units goes from late August through late December. The full-time summer unit, which requires 40 hours a week, lasts 11 weeks, beginning in late May and ending in early August.

Below is our internship schedule for 2026 and beyond.

Summer 2026 Full-Time Intensive Unit

May 26 to August 7 (11 weeks)
CPE Class: Tuesdays 8:00 AM–4:00 PM and Thursdays 8:00 AM–12:00 PM
Clinical Work: Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM, when CPE class is not in session

Fall 2026 Extended Unit

August 18 to December 18 (18 weeks)
CPE Class: Tuesdays 8:00 AM–2:45 PM
Clinical Work: 18 hours per week, on a flexible schedule

Spring 2027 Extended Unit

January 5 to May 7 (18 weeks)
CPE Class: Tuesdays 8:00 AM–2:45 PM
Clinical Work: 18 hours per week, on a flexible schedule

Summer 2027 Full-Time Intensive Unit

May 25 to August 6 (11 weeks)
CPE Class: Tuesdays 8:00 AM–4:00 PM and Thursdays 8:00 AM–12:00 PM
Clinical Work: Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM, when CPE class is not in session

Fall 2027 Extended Unit

August 17 to December 17 (18 weeks)
CPE Class: Tuesday 8:00 AM–2:45 PM
Clinical Work: 18 hours per week, on a flexible schedule

CPE classes typically take place at 550 First Avenue, Manhattan. CPE clinical placements are at the following locations:

Requirements and Application

Prospective students must have earned a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, and one or more years of theological or religious training is preferred. Applicants must undergo a background check and health clearance.

We believe students from a variety of backgrounds and experiences help inspire excellence and address inequities in healthcare in our patient communities. We promote safe educational environment, respect, tolerance, and expanding the diversity of our community. Students of underrepresented backgrounds, including, but not limited to, those who identify as African American, Latinx, Asian, Native American, Native Pacific Islander, or Native Alaskan, are encouraged to apply.

CPE applications are received on a rolling basis until all openings are filled. Once the program is at capacity, applications may be held on a waiting list for consideration in the next available unit. Tuition is $800 per unit with a non-refundable deposit of $300 due with your acceptance materials. The $500 balance is due on the first day of your CPE program. Your ecclesial body or seminary may be able to provide funding to help defray the costs.

ACPE Certified Educator

The Reverend Young-ki Eun, MA, M.Div, ACPE

Rev. Eun is an ordained Presbyterian minister with more than 25 years’ experience working as a CPE educator, chaplain, university faculty member, and parish minister. He graduated from the University of Toronto/Knox College with a master’s degree in divinity. He has completed postgraduate studies in theology, English, linguistics, and psychoanalytic studies, as well as four years of clinical training in psychotherapy. Rev. Eun started his CPE journey in 1999 at Toronto General Hospital, Canada. His work as a CPE educator includes New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center; The Hospital of St. Raphael (now Yale New Haven Hospital-St Raphael Campus), Connecticut; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston; Ochsner Health System, New Orleans; and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee. As an ACPE-certified educator, Rev. Eun has a passion for empowering chaplain interns and residents to develop a deeper connection with their authentic selves within a genuine, diverse, and trustworthy learning environment; to forge and strengthen their personal and professional identities; and to provide “soul-to-soul” (not merely “role-to-role”) spiritual encounters in their ministry of compassionate spiritual care.

Please complete the ACPE application and use of clinical materials consent form and mail them to this address:

Rev. Young-Ki Eun, CPE Director
NYU Langone Health
545 First Avenue
Floor C-Room 019
New York, NY 10016

You can also email your application to Young-Ki.Eun@NYULangone.org.

Contact Us

For more information on our CPE programs, please contact SpiritualCare@NYULangone.org. or call 212-263-5903.

CPE Frequently Asked Questions

https://acpe.edu/education/cpe-students/faqs

All programs are accredited by:

ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education
1 Concourse Pkwy, Suite 800
Atlanta, GA 30030
Phone: 404-320-1472
Website: www.acpe.edu