Academic time
Every other week, fellows are allotted a full day to work on scholarly activity, attend didactics or communication training, work on a quality improvement project, and self-care. These alternate with clinic weeks (see below).
Palliative care clinic
The Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center palliative care outpatient clinic is a well-established clinical practice that provides palliative medicine services for patients living with a variety of potentially life-limiting conditions. Clinics are primarily held in our 3R clinic.
Patients are seen in close collaboration with primary clinical teams and specialists and with the Palliative Medicine faculty, including physicians, nurse practitioners, and social workers. Care in the outpatient clinic involves pain and symptom management, advance care planning, support in decision-making and counseling regarding life closure and bereavement issues. The clinic has maintained its ability to support patients via teleHealth, telephone office or in person visits.
Fellows have clinic every other week (alternating with didactics) for a full day. Fellows maintain continuity with their established patients throughout the year. Fellows will experience a different clinic supervisor every 4 months and become progressively independent over the course of the year.