At the Emory Palliative Care Center, we are dedicated both to training future leaders in academic palliative medicine through our fellowship and to providing excellent education for multidisciplinary trainees in primary palliative care--that is, the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that all clinicians, no matter their area of specialty, should acquire in order to care for patients with serious illness.
Our one-year fellowship program in Hospice & Palliative Medicine prepares physicians to become skilled clinicians, educators, and researchers in preparation for a career in academic palliative medicine or community practice. We offer a diverse clinical experience through rotations at a variety of Emory University and affiliated hospitals. The fellowship is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
In addition to the fellowship, our comprehensive education program provides extensive offerings to aspiring medical professionals of all levels, including medical, nursing, and physician assistant students, residents, fellows, and faculty. As an acknowledgment of the importance of palliative care education for a broad swath of medical trainees, palliative care leadership has been successful in partnering with leaders in other training programs to establish required rotations in palliative care for all medical students, internal medicine residents, family medicine residents, geriatric medicine fellows, hematology/oncology fellows, and pain medicine fellows. In addition, elective rotations in palliative medicine are offered to other interested trainees.
