Palliative Care AOC
The palliative care track is designed for residents interested in enhanced experience developing skills to evaluate a patient’s physical needs and need for psychological & spiritual support while dealing with serious illness.
They will also learn how to help with social and family adjustments and how to coordinate resources. Focus will be on developing skills to help patients with:
Uncontrolled pain
Symptoms that aren’t responding to treatment
Severe nausea or vomiting
Shortness of breath
Psychological distress (anxiety, agitation, emotional or spiritual anguish)
Uncertainty about health-care decisions, quality of life or progress of disease
Residents will complete an elective in palliative care, attend palliative care grand rounds and a national conference, organize a journal club, and develop a presentation on a selected palliative care topic.