Professional Development

• Medical Education

One of the roles of a fellowship-trained physician is to promote and teach hospice and palliative care to patients, families, community members, colleagues, administrators, medical staff, and peers (EPA 17). Through didactics and mentored experiential learning – including a day-long Teaching Retreat in the fall – fellows become skilled educators over the course of the year.

 

• Leadership

Interdisciplinary teamwork is essential to whole-person care, and HPM physicians must participate as a member or leader of an interdisciplinary team (EPA 6). Fellows learn leadership skills throughout the year, culminating in a day-long Leadership Retreat in the spring.

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• Resilience

HPM physicians value and promote resilience and personal well-being for themselves and others as a necessary element for professional success and sustainability (EPA 13). In the course of the fellowship, fellows develop an understanding of their own vulnerabilities for burnout, identify their personal strengths to draw on to cope with the intensity of the clinical work, and learn techniques to maximize resilience. A day-long Resilience Retreat is held in the winter.