Billings J Andrew, Dahlin Constance, Dungan Sheryn, Greenberg Donna, Krakauer Eric L, Lawless Nan, Montgomery Paul, Reid Coleen
Palliative Care Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
J Palliat Med. 2003 Jun;6(3):355-63. doi: 10.1089/109662103322144673.
We present a description of a one-year palliative care fellowship training program for physicians at the Massachusetts General Hospital. We provide background information on the Palliative Care Service, and offer an overview of the educational content and methods for fellowship training, focusing especially on psychosocial aspects of care. The medical background and post-training positions of fellows are described. This document is meant to assist other palliative care fellowship programs in developing their curricula and possibly to serve as an initial template for creating educational standards and for identifying outcome measures for educational evaluation of such programs.
