Colorado Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program
The Colorado Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program provides comprehensive
palliative care education and clinical experiences for physicians seeking to
specialize in hospice and palliative medicine. Primary fellowship training
consists of a one year, clinically focused experience, with an optional second
year of mentored research training for those interested in an academic medical
career.
The Colorado Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program provides fellows with
insight and skill in the assessment and management of patients with
life-limiting illnesses in varied inpatient and outpatient community settings.
Upon completion of the fellowship, participants will demonstrate proficiency in
all aspects of hospice and palliative medicine including:
- End-of-life communication
- Ethical and legal decision making
- Pain in cancer and non-cancer patients
- Management of non-pain symptoms
- Medical and neuro-psychiatric co-morbidities in advanced illness
- Psychosocial and spiritual support
- Death and dying across cultures
- Bereavement support for the family
- Palliative care quality improvement and research methodology
- Hospice and palliative approach to care Interdisciplinary team work
More About the Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program
- Program Description
- Application
- Program Information on the
American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine
web site (scroll down to University of Colorado)