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Medical School - Palliative Care Education Project 2009-10

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AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT

The Medical College of Wisconsin’s End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center (EPERC) announces the names of the medical schools who have been awarded to participate in the Medical School Palliative Care Education Project, funded by the Y.C. Ho/Helen and Michael Chiang Foundation.
 
EPERC is proud to announce the names of the three schools selected and the PIs:

University of Vermont College of Medicine, Tania Bertsch, MD

SUNY Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY) School of Medicine - Lynn Hallarman, MD

University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio, Jeanette Ross, MD

Mission

To assist three United States medical schools start or improve their palliative care curriculum for 3rd and 4th year medical students. The specific project goals are to help schools:

1.     Develop a self-sustaining required and elective palliative care training opportunity for 3rd and 4th year medical students, that combines both didactic and experiential education.
2.     Establish a faculty development program in palliative care.
 

Project Resources

Project Award Information

Each school will be awarded a $30,000 stipend; 50% or more of the funds must be used to support a clerkship director’s (or equivalent) salary to work on the project. The remainder of the  may be distributed at the discretion of the medical school to support faculty salaries, travel, or educational materials.  NOTE: The project will also pay the tuition fee for one faculty from each school to attend Harvard's Palliative Care Education & Practice (PCEP) training in 2010. 

Key Dates

  • Applications available for downloading
 → June 15, 2009
  • Applications due  
 → August 14, 2009
  • Awards announced
 → September 16, 2009
  • Needs assessment completion
 → November 15, 2009
  • Site visits  
 → December 08-January 09
  • One day, all school follow-up conference 
 → Early Fall 2010
  • PCEP course dates  
 → April 27 - May 4, 2010 and November 10-16, 2010
  • Final progress report  
 → Late Fall 2010

 

Payment Schedule

$30,000 will be paid in increments of $7,500, based on completion of deliverables:
·         $7,500 after the school completes the needs assessment process
·         $7,500 after site visit completion
·         $7,500 after the 9 month progress report is submitted
·         $7,500 after the (final) progress report is submitted

 

Background

In 2000, the LCME mandated that all medical schools “must” teach about end-of-life care, yet few schools have developed comprehensive educational programs spanning a four year curriculum,  including a required component of experiential training. The recent ABMS designation of Hospice and Palliative Medicine as a subspecialty of ten medical specialties adds further impetus for medical schools to develop strong clinical training for medical students.
 

Palliative Medicine education is best provided through a combination of didactic and experiential training.  The rapid growth of hospital-based palliative care consultation programs and academic linkages to community hospice agencies, offers an opportunity for schools to develop clinically-based, experiential educational programs for medical students during the clinical years.   Several successful models of experiential training are now available for broader dissemination.   This project seeks to expand the pool of medical schools offering sustainable experiential education for students and to enhance faculty development.
 

Peer Review of Proposals

Proposals will be reviewed by the project faculty and Medical College of Wisconsin primary care clerkship directors.

 

For Information Contact Judi Rehm 414-456-4353  jrehm@mcw.edu