Curricula & Schedules

Intro to hospice and palliative care

Hospice 101
Prognostication

Opioids for cancer related pain
Opioid use and safety in hospice

Respiratory symptoms
Nausea 

Communication prep session
Fellow Hygge Session #1

Contracts, TBA
Communication Workshop #1 (4 hr)

Career
Culturally Sensitive Communication

Pain adjuvants
Heart failure

Compassionate extubation/withdrawal of life sustaining treatments

Communication workshop #2 (6 hr)

Board review questions #1
Journal club #1-2

Methadone
Palliative emergencies

Impending death
Radiation oncology 101

Anorexia and cachexia
Nutrition in oncology + cannabis
Journal club #3-4

Buprenorphine
Withdrawal of life sustaining tx
Palliative Sedation

Hospice pulm and O2 management
Addiction

Fellow Hygge Session #2

ESLD
Depression & anxiety

Communication Workshop #3 (4 hr)

Dementia

The Business of Death

Board review questions #2
Journal club #5-6

*FULL DAY
TBA
Existential distress

Fellow Hygge Session #3

Board review questions #3
Journal club #7-8

4Ms
Deprescribing

Grief and bereavement

GI (ascites, MBO, refractory nausea)

Interventional pain management
Prognostication in dementia

MAiD, No cure for being human
Communication #4 (4-6hr)

Overview peds pall management
Adolescent decision making

AAHPM (No Consortium)

ESRD

Fellow Hygge Session #4

ALS

Needs of Bereaved Children
Peds pain and symptom management

Perinatal/Peds Neurology

Pediatric ethical issues (2hr)

Board review questions #4