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Medical School - Palliative Care Education Project 2009-10

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Applicant School Eligibility ►

Schools that apply must:

  • Be an accredited medical school within the United States
  • Designate a team of individuals to work on curriculum development, to include:
1.     The director (clerkship director or equivalent) for medical student education in any clinical department that is willing to embed palliative care education within their existing required clerkship for third or fourth year students 

Note: Applications from schools that can demonstrate a plan for collaborative educational programming across more than one department are especially encouraged

2.     The identified physician leader of the clinical palliative care or affiliated hospice program

3.     A second physician willing to assume a leadership role in providing palliative care education to students or faculty

4.     Medical students; ideally one each from M2, M3, and M4 years
 
Priority will be given to schools with the following characteristics:

  • Medical student class size > 100 per year
  • Schools with at least a 1.0 FTE board certified palliative medicine physician faculty member who is active in palliative care clinical and/or educational work. 
  • Schools with teaching hospitals that have an established palliative care clinical service or educational liaison relationship with one or more community hospice agencies are preferred, to include one or more of the following:
1.     A palliative care consultation service at a primary teaching hospital with a monthly consult volume of > 30 consults/month. AND/OR
2.     An inpatient palliative care/hospice inpatient ward or swing-bed unit with an average daily census of at least 8 patients. AND/OR
3.     An affiliated hospice program, either home based or residential. For home based programs, the hospice should have an average daily census of at least 75 patients; a residential unit should have at least an 8 bed capacity.