Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship Curriculum

Our program promotes strong scholarship, healthy professional identity formation, and wellness through a supportive and thoughtfully-designed curriculum including the activities below.

Didactics, Conferences, and Meetings

Fellows begin the year with a 2-week didactic block. Didactics covering core topics in hospice and palliative medicine continue on a monthly basis.

Other didactics, conferences, and meetings include:

• Tumor board
• Ethics committee
• Patient safety & quality conference
• Interdisciplinary journal club
• Schwartz rounds
• Palliative care rounds
• Monthly scholarly meeting

Teaching Activities

Fellows regularly engage with and teach students and residents during their clinical rotations. They also gradually assume the lead teaching role in the FAU third-year medical students’ end-of-life simulation and palliative care academic half day, both of which recur throughout the year. Fellows are expected to present at least twice at journal club and make additional presentations over the course of their rotations. In addition to these core activities, there are additional optional teaching opportunities with students and residents.

Scholarly Work

Faculty support fellows in a scholarly project that is identified early in the fellowship year and developed longitudinally. This project should be in an area of interest to the fellow and may be focused on quality improvement, educational innovation, or research.

Fellows will be expected to submit an abstract to the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Annual Assembly and/or other academic conferences or peer-reviewed publication.