| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Palliative Care Grand Rounds | This weekly interdisciplinary conference, the primary educational activity for the Duke Palliative Care community, includes case presentations, didactic lectures and ethics conferences. |
| Core Curriculum | Early in the fellowship, fellows attend a series of faculty lectures covering key topics in palliative medicine. This acquaints fellows with the faculty and provides a foundation of knowledge for clinical rotations. These lectures take place during the academic half-day on Thursday afternoons. |
| Longitudinal Curriculum | Following completion of the Core Curriculum fellows attend didactic lectures throughout the year which comprehensively cover essential topics in hospice and palliative medicine. These lectures take place during the academic half-day on Thursday afternoons. |
| Pediatric Palliative Care Curriculum | A series of lectures built into the Pediatric Quality of Life rotation for the Pediatric Palliative Medicine fellow and open to other fellows based on interest. |
| Vital Talk | Fellows attending an intensive communication skills training retreat with our Vital Talk trained faculty. |
| Quality Improvement Project | Each fellow works on a year-long quality improvement project, individually or with a small group. As part of academic half day, there is a monthly meeting dedicated to teaching principles of quality improvement and working on projects. |
| Palliative Care Journal Club | Led by the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Palliative Medicine, Dr. Chris Jones, fellows participate in journal club during their academic half day series and learn how to review journal articles. |
| Palliative Care Self-Care Curriculum | Fellows participate in monthly fellow-only discussion groups facilitated by a physician board certified in palliative care, psychiatry, and internal medicine. |
| Chaplain Verbatim Curriculum | Senior chaplain educators lead our fellows in a series of workshops in practicing verbatims, reflecting on difficult patient experiences. |
| Debriefing | Fellows participate in regular debriefing sessions as a small group with a faculty member with expertise in debriefing. |
| Ethics Conferences | In addition to ethics topics covered during academic half day, our fellows are invited to attending a monthly Ethics series alongside psychiatry residents. |
| Clinical Interdisciplinary Conference |
Interdisciplinary team meetings on the various clinical services include continuing education and discussions of the structures, processes, and policies of clinical services and teamwork. |
Curricula Offered Through the Division of Geriatric Medicine
- Combined Geriatric & Palliative Medicine teaching sessions: These 2-hour interactive teaching sessions held throughout the year for Geriatrics Fellows each focus on core topics in hospice and palliative medicine for older adults. Palliative Medicine Fellows attend relevant teaching sessions.
- Stanford Teaching Curriculum: Combined program with Geriatrics fellows
- Quality Improvement Retreat