An academic-practice partnership during COVID-19 pandemic: Transitioning from a clinical to virtual fellowship.

Aims: Discuss the needed modifications that occurred to the academic-practice oncology partnership during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: To meet the workforce needs of nurses who care for adults with cancer, an academic-practice partnership was created in 2016. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing, North Carolina Cancer Hospital and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center collaborated to provide structured clinical and didactic practice experiences for undergraduate nursing students interested in oncology nursing.