Educational Activities

Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship

Bootcamp: Intensive, multi-institutional didactics held for HPM fellows during the month of July. Participating programs include ChristianaCare, Nemours Children’s Hospital, Jefferson University, Cooper University Hospital, Einstein Medical Center and Temple/Fox Chase Cancer Center

                 - 3 half-days of didactics
                 - 1 half-day of communication training

Weekly didactics, case conferences and journal clubs at ChristianaCare on Friday mornings

Bi-monthly didactics and journal clubs hosted by the palliative care team at Nemours on Friday mornings

Monthly board review sessions on the first Wednesday of the month

Ethics committee meetings/conferences

Palliative Care Ambassador Series: regional course held annually by ChristianaCare consisting of 3-6 presentations