Program Rotations

Core Rotations: to develop and demonstrate competencies in specialty level palliative care.

Inpatient Hospice Unit: In a hospice inpatient setting dedicated to high acuity support for hospice patients and their families and for the care of the imminently dying.

Inpatient Consultations: In a public hospital, community hospital and tertiary academic university hospital and ambulatory settings via palliative care consultations.

Home and Long-term Care: In long-term care settings as well as private residences, focusing on facilitating inpatient-outpatient continuity of care, especially as related to the practice of palliative and hospice medicine.

Interventional Anesthesia: Appreciating and recognizing the role of interventional pain treatments in the care of patients with complex pain syndromes.

Pediatric Palliative Medicine: Enhancing culturally respectful, family-centered care of children living with life-threatening conditions, including dealing with the ethical challenges of end-of-life pediatric decision-making

Elective Rotations: to develop and demonstrate palliative care competencies as applied to a variety of medical situations.

Geriatric: Providing quality palliative care to geriatric patients across a wide range of settings—inpatient, clinic and home or long-term care settings.

Wound Care: Providing a primary level of management of common skin disorders of serious illnesses and recognizing the role of a wound-care service for complicated wound management.

Hematology/Oncology: Providing palliative care to patients in hematology services and on the bone marrow transplant unit. Participating in the weekly conferences of the hematology/oncology program.