Abstract Background and Objective: Despite the growth of palliative medicine, 39% of
hospitals do not have palliative care teams for consultation or to provide resident education …

Background: Internal medicine residents are frequently called upon to provide palliative care
to hospitalized patients, but report feeling unprepared to do so effectively. Curricular …

Purpose To assess knowledge and associated factors in palliative care. Methods Self-
administered survey of 88 internal medicine house officers in 1996. Results Twenty-one …

Background: Hospitalized patients with serious illness have significant symptom burden and
face complex medical decisions that often require goals of care discussions. Given the …

Background: Contemporary medicine has begun to reemphasize the importance of palliative
and end-of-life-care. This shift requires a commensurate change in physician education to …

Background: There has been an increasing need to address end of life (EOL) care and
palliative care in an era when measures to extend life for terminal illnesses are often …

The authors present the curricular elements of a palliative care experience for internal
medicine residents at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and the Zablocki Veterans …

Introduction: Internal medicine programs are now required to integrate palliative care into
teaching conferences, and palliative care content is already tested on the American Board of …

Interest and appreciation for palliative care (PC) has resulted in increased demand for both
PC services and education. The PC rotation has been shown to improve PC knowledge in …

Abstract Purpose: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requires that
internal medicine (IM) core curricula include end-of-life care and pain management …