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Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship The University of Minnesota launched a one-year clinical fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine in 2008, training physicians in symptom relief and pain management of patients suffering from advanced or progressive illnesses.
The program is sponsored by the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health; University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview; Minneapolis VA Medical Center; and Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota.
Since its inception, the fellowship has graduated three board-eligible physicians in hospice and palliative medicine. Alumni are practicing locally, helping to meet the area’s shortage of palliative care physicians.
2011-12 UpdatesIn 2011, the fellowship expanded to include adult and pediatric tracks.
A relationship was also forged with the VA, where fellows rotate at the Minneapolis VA hospital’s new integrative palliative care unit. “The VA’s palliative care unit allows fellows a unique experience caring for patients at the end-of-life or with challenging supportive and palliative care needs, in a dedicated unit staffed with a full interprofessional palliative care team,” says fellowship director Drew Rosielle, MD.
Current fellows Naomi Goloff, MD, Paula Lindhorst, MD, and Elizabeth Uchitelle, MD, and director Drew Rosielle, MD, will host a breakout session at the 2012 Minnesota Hospice and Palliative Care Conference in April. The session will consist of three case discussions. Cases will address “unsafe” discharges from the hospital to home hospice; use of ketamine to palliate intractable cancer pain; and the challenges of becoming an adult in the setting of a life-limiting illness. Learn More
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