Hospice and Palliative Care Fellowship Columbia

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what the things that we really focus on

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is making sure that our fellows get good

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experience in patient care we want our

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fellows to be very well-rounded and very

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well prepared to be job ready day one

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after they finish a fellowship we make

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sure that they're prepared for both

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inpatient paliative care outpatient

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paliative care and we make sure that

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they are prepared to take care of very

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very ill patients we take care of

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patients with El ads we take care of

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patients on all sorts of drips we take

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care of very critically ill patients in

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the home and we help them live longer

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with a better quality of life our

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fellows see everything and are prepared

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to take care of the sickest of the sick

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patient and give dignity and good

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quality of life at the end of life for

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fellows who are joining this program my

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goal is to train Physicians that I would

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want to keep as partners and that

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requires vulnerability on both sides it

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requires meeting the fellows where they

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are and giving them the tools they need

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to be successful in the fellowship we

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are this interdisciplinary team that can

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meet all of our patients needs I've been

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very fortunate that the folks who have

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trained here have wanted to stay on as

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faculty we have three fellows in our

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program it's enough that you'll get to

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train with other people and be on that

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Journey with them I would say what also

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sets us apart from other fellowships I

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would think is the interdisciplinary

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element of Pala of care as well as the

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personal nature of Pala of care work in

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general I think that is the main key

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element is learning how to navigate and

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work with an interdisciplinary team

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within the spectrum of whole person Care

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physical spiritual emotional social how

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all that interplays and interconnects in

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how we take care of our patients the day

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begins with the interdisciplinary

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meeting in the morning and then after

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that they usually will be with the

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physician to do patient care and during

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that day as they're seeing patients and

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meeting families they might identify

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psychosocial needs that they can

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collaborate with a social worker there

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are times where in family meeting social

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workers are also needed to be present so

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that's the way that we also collaborate

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during my interview experience the staff

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and the faculty were all very

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approachable it was very fun to

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interview I feel like this is a place

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that I felt even before coming here that

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I would fit in and would be welcomed and

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taught well everybody here really wants

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you to succeed a lot of the faculty

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genuinely feel like it is part of their

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mission to teach and expand the field of

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hospice and P of medicine as a whole

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this program really had no competition

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one because my family's here but twoo

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because it's just an incredible program

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our PD is kind of at the Forefront of

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Fellowship training and he set up a

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virtual didactic series that's kind of

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leading the nation on top of getting an

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incredible education there's been a big

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focus on networking too Dr Thompson

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really has encouraged us to reach out to

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other attendings at other programs and

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build the relationships not just within

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our program but across the country I was

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a heart surgeon for 35 years I retired

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for 10 years and I felt a calling and

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came back to this the culture of this

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program if I had to sum it up in a word

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I would say egalitarian everybody is

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respected for who they are everybody's

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opinion is respected I certainly like

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the camaraderie of this program I was

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formerly a fellow here and completed

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Fellowship in June what I do currently

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is I'm here a quarter of the time doing

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paliative care 34 of the time I'm doing

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emergency medicine and so I'm combining

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those two and kind of creating a new

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role for myself self in paliative care

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with the background of emergency

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medicine culture has been great here I

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love the interaction that we have with

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our interdisciplinary team very open

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easy to talk with people easy to talk

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with our team members if I struggled

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with something is easy to reach out and

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say hey can you help me with this our

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fellowship's goals are fulfilling all of

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the requirements of acgme but past that

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my goal is meeting every fellow where

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they are and tailoring the program to

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them to create the best experience that

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will set them up for whatever field of

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hospice or paliative medicine they want

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to go into after their Fellowship I

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think what sets us apart is the care

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that we give each fellow and the way

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that we tailor the program individually

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to their needs