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Program Description
If you are interested in compassionately helping patients face end-of-life
issues and conditions involving chronic pain, Mayo Clinic's 12-month
Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program will comprehensively train
you to care for patients with life-limiting diseases.
The overriding goal of the fellowship is to train physicians in
the principles of palliative care as defined by the World Health
Organization (WHO): “The active total care of patients whose disease
is not responsive to curative treatment. Control of pain, other
symptoms, and psychological, social and spiritual problems, is paramount.
The goal of palliative care is achievement of the best quality of
life for patients and their families.”
Physicians who care for dying patients need to understand the principles
of palliative medicine. As a palliative medicine fellow, you will
be immersed in an intense level of evaluation of the total patient
and family unit, with special attention to their wide-ranging needs
and appropriate treatment.
Mayo Clinic's Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program provides:
- Comprehensive training in multidisciplinary
holistic pain and symptom management of chronically and terminally
ill patients.
- Training in the history of hospice and palliative
medicine as they related to current concepts of interdisciplinary,
holistic symptom evaluation and management.
- Focus on both the patient and their family.
- An opportunity to work and study with a patient-focused
team of professionals, including chaplains, medical social workers,
psychologists, pharmacists and other allied health staff.
- Participation in the active and total care of
patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment.
- A practice setting in which you will provide
guidance in psychological, social and spiritual matters as a part
of the holistic care, while embracing the patient's own beliefs
and existential concerns.
Certification
When you successfully complete the Mayo Clinic Palliative
Medicine Fellowship Program, you will be eligible to take the American
Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Certification Examination
in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
Program History
The Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville
was established in 2004 and will accept its first trainee in 2005.
Going forward, it is anticipated, that one fellow will complete
this program annually.
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