Recognizing the importance of palliative care service and the shortage of trained palliative care providers, the Coleman Foundation of Chicago awarded a grant to the Chicagoland Palliative Medicine Physicians’ Collective to train medical and interdisciplinary providers at hospitals across the Chicago area. The Mission Improve the quality of palliative care services at hospitals in the … Read moreThe Coleman Palliative Medicine Education Program
I’m at the Intensive Board Review course in Boston and in the middle of a whirlwind of learning. Dr. Joseph Shega’s lecture on Dementia and feeding tubes provided excellent clinical evidence to support my article in yesterday’s New York Times Well Blog post, Food and the Dying Patient By Jessica Nutik Zitter, MD
Listed below are a few articles from the most recent issue of the journal: Highlights of the August issue include all the papers from the Special Section on Studies to Understand Delirium In Palliative Settings (SUNDIPS) To access the articles, you must subscribe to JPSM or be a member of the American Academy of Hospice … Read moreHighlights of the August Issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
The Joint Commission has proposed “enhancements” to the advanced certification requirements for palliative care programs and has requested comments by August 21, 2014 via online survey. A healthy debate about some of the new requirements is taking place on AAHPM listservs and social media platforms. I love seeing the passionate concerns about how best to … Read moreHow high to set the bar? Debates over TJC standards are healthy and familiar
On July 15, we had the opportunity to participate in a Summit convened by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and attended by ABIM leaders and 26 societies representing both primary internal medicine and medicine subspecialties. The Summit was scheduled in response to the dissatisfaction with the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program expressed … Read moreAAHPM participates in ABIM MOC discussions