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Fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine
The Fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine offers a robust training experience,
with exposure to both inpatient specialty-level palliative care and hospice,
and the opportunity to attain strong skills in pain management. Following completion
of the Fellowship, the trainee will be able to acquire the following competencies:
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Perform a multidimensional assessment to formulate an understanding
of the needs of the patient and family for specialist-level palliative
care in multiple domains |
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Analyze benefit and burden of multiple treatments based
on the assessment and develop an appropriate multimodality plan of care |
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Manage challenging problems in pain and symptom control |
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Assess and contribute to the management of psychosocial
or spiritual distress |
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Communicate competently about sensitive issues including
breaking bad news, advance care planning |
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Competently care for the imminently dying and their families |
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Appropriately coordinate care across treatment venues, and
communicate with other treating professionals |
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Apply bedside ethics to common clinical scenarios |
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Understand the structure, functioning and regulatory aspects
of hospice care |
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Understand the structure, functioning and regulatory aspects
of nursing home care |
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Apply documentation approaches, evidence-based medicine
techniques, and quality improvement methods to treatment evaluation and
practice management |
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Understand and integrate specialist-level pain
management into broader model of palliative care |
Schedule of Rotations
| 3 months |
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Inpatient consultation team |
| 3 months |
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Inpatient Palliative Care and Hospice Unit |
| 4 months |
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Hospice Home Care |
| 1 month |
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Long-term care experience |
| 1 month |
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Elective experience |
| Continuity Clinic |
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1 session/week all year |
All Fellows participate in the hospital ethics program and a didactic program
including weekly Fellow lectures, clinical conferences, and Palliative Division
Team meetings or hospice interdisciplinary team meetings, and monthly Grand
Rounds, Morbidity and Mortality conferences, and journal clubs.
Faculty
The Fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Care has an experienced interdisciplinary
faculty. Current members include:
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Specialty / Title / Interest
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| Pauline Lesage, MD |
Program Director / Family Medicine Physician
Inpatient Unit Director
Hospice Medical Director |
| Russell Portenoy, MD |
DPMPC Chair / Neurologist
Chief Medical Officer, Continuum Hospice Care
Palliative Care / Pain Medicine |
| Ida Santana, MD |
Internal Medicine Physician / Pediatrician
Hospice Medical Director |
| Wayne Ury, MD |
Psychiatrist / Internal Medicine Physician
Hospice Medical Director |
| Stewart Fleishman, MD |
Psychiatrist
Assoc. Chief Medical Officer, Continuum Hospice Care
Dir., Cancer Supportive Services |
| Wendy Lovenvirth, DO |
Internal Medicine Physician / Geriatrician
Hospice Medical Director |
| Katherine Leonard, MD |
Pediatrician
Hospice Medical Director |
| Paul DeSandre, MD |
Emergency Medicine Physician
Hospice Medical Director |
| Zachary Palace, MD |
Internal Medicine Physician / Geriatrician
Medical Director, Hebrew Home for the Aged |
| Myra Glajchen, DSW |
Associate Program Director
DPMPC Institute Director
Social Work |
| Terry Altilio, LCSW, ACSW |
DPMPC Manager of Social Work |
| Marilyn Bookbinder, PhD, RN |
DPMPC Director of Nursing |
| Alessandra Strada, PhD |
Psychologist |
| Sami Ahmed, PharmD |
Clinical Pharmacist |
Application Process
If you are interested in applying for a fellowship, please download and complete
the following forms:
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, beginning in the May prior to
the start of the training year. Applications are reviewed by members of the
Department’s Education Committee. Owing to the volume of applications,
only selected applicants will be granted a face-to-face interview with Department
faculty. On site interviews take place in September and October, and fellowship
offers are made in November.
Please note: The Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative
Care is unable to support or accept foreign applicants carrying H1B visas.
For information on benefits and terms and conditions
of employment, please visit Beth Israel Medical Center's Graduate
Medical Education website: www.BethIsraelGME.org
-- user name: applicant; password: entrance
Contact Person
Completed application packets should be mailed to the address below.
If you are interested in applying
for a fellowship, please contact:
Myra Glajchen, DSW
Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care
Beth Israel Medical Center
1st Avenue at 16th Street
New York, NY 10003
Tel: (212) 844-1472
Fax: (212) 844-1503
Email StopPain@chpnet.org
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