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We are excited to announce an opportunity to join the Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship program at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN. 

The UTHSC HPM Fellowship is an ACGME accredited, adult and pediatric program that trains 6 fellows annually. The training utilizes inpatient, hospice and ambulatory settings to provide fellows with the knowledge and experience they need to deliver high quality care along the age and disease continuum. This includes intensive symptom management, intentional communication skills in discussion of goals of care, advance care planning, redirection of care and transition from a focus of cure to comfort.  Our mission is to train our fellows to provide this care with a compassionate patient- and family-centered approach while maintaining appropriate balance in self-care, self-reflection and professional boundaries.

Aims

• Provide comprehensive didactic and clinical teaching that produces high quality Board Certified HPM physicians. 
• Develop compassionate, patient- and family-centered physicians who integrate self-reflection, self-care and work-life balance to maintain longevity of practice while providing excellent patient care.  
• Develop leaders and life-long learners who focus on quality improvement and clinical research.

Activities

• Didactics: Multisite program with rich teaching environments led by HPM Board certified physicians and   interdisciplinary teams (IDT) team along with   subspecialty participation. . Fellows start fellowship with a month of orientation in July that focuses on the basics of HPM.  Pain and symptom management lectures, communication workshops, narrative medicine and health equity topics are weaved throughout orientation and the rest of year. . During the duration of fellowship, fellows participate in bimonthly formal didactics, bedside teaching, and journal clubs
• Clinical: Clinical settings include a full range of patient care services, other consulting physicians and non-physician caregivers with expertise in all aspects of pain and non-pain symptom management for pediatric and adult patients including a unique pediatric community-based program providing home care, palliative and hospice care.
• Wellness: Fellows have one Wednesday morning each month reserved for a wellness with structured and unstructured wellness activities. Debriefs with a non-faculty
• Scholarship: Fellows will have opportunity to complete scholarship and will be assigned a faculty mentor to help guide them.  QI and research design through the fellowship and UTHSC are accessible to all fellows.  Fellows have a faculty mentor for QI/Research, workshops, broad statistical and research design support staff. Fellows are encouraged to present minimally at one national meeting.
• Leadership: Our faculty are leaders in the field of HPM, many of whom graduated from this program. They are dedicated to education and are available to mentor, model, and promote leadership growth.  

Contact for more information:

Arshia Madni, MD
Program Director
amdani1@uthsc.edu

Erica Franklin
Program Coordinator
efrank11@uthsc.edu