Clinical Pastoral Education Program

The Reading Hospital Department of Chaplaincy Services offers the following Clinical Pastoral Education programs:

• Summer Internship: For Theological Students, Clergy and Qualified Lay Applicants
• Extended Internship: Fall through Winter for Theological Students, Clergy and Qualified Lay Applicants
• Chaplain Residency: A one-year paid professional training program for careers in chaplaincy.

Our curriculum and supervised clinical pastoral experiences focus on the development and refinement of pastoral care and counseling skills that are theoretically informed and pastorally effective.

The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) re-accredited our program in 2005 for ten years with commendation.

For more information on the current CPE admissions policy, please refer to The School of Health Sciences Office of Admissions pages.

For additional information, please contact:

Chaplain Shannon R. Borchert, M.Div., BCC
CPE Program Coordinator
The Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences
PO Box 16052
Reading, PA 19612-6052
Phone: 610-741-0205
Email:borcherts@readinghospital.org