Educational Initiatives
- Summer Bootcamp:
- Intensive Lecture Series early in fellowship for core concepts in palliative care
- Pediatric Summer Lecture Series
- Pediatric specific lecture series early in fellowship for core concepts in pediatric palliative care
- Communication Skills Training:
- A series of seven, 2-hour sessions that include brief didactic and role play with a standardized patient
- Case-based Learning:
- Quarterly, 2-hour CBL sessions focused on pharmacologic symptom management
- Wellness:
- Quarterly, 2-hour wellness sessions, focused on tools for wellness in HPM
- Journal Club:
- 2-4 fellow-led journal club sessions/year.
- Didactic Lectures:
- On average 1 hour/week of lectures, that include core topics in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and include lectures from experts in their related field, providing our fellows with education around standards of practice in the care of patients with serious illness (e.g. Heart Failure and VADs, End-stage lung disease, Substance Use Disorders, etc.)
- Quality Improvement and Scholarly Project:
- 2, 1-hour didactics on core principles in quality improvement, followed by a completion of a formal QI project. Projects are co-designed by fellows and a faculty mentor with expertise in QI.
- Teaching Opportunities
- Multiple faculty members in Hospice and Palliative Medicine hold roles in educational leadership in Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education at WashU Medicine. Many opportunities exist for development and practice of teaching skills.