Conferences

Palliative Medicine Fellowship Bootcamp:

The palliative medicine fellowship bootcamp session occurs during the day of fellowship orientation in July.  It encompasses several hours of high yield topics taught by the fellowship program director and assistant program director including primers on: opioids, nausea, family meeting communication skills pointers.

Regional Fellows Conference: Core Curriculum Didactic Sessions

The Regional Fellows’ Conference encompasses the core longitudinal didactic curriculum for the UChicago fellowship. They are held monthly throughout the academic year in conjunction with other Chicago palliative medicine fellowship programs (UChicago Medicine, Northwestern Medicine, Rush University/Stroger). These didactics are taught by faculty from the palliative medicine fellowship training programs at the different Chicago fellowship campuses.

Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine Grand Rounds

In addition, at the University of Chicago we have grand rounds sessions weekly September through June that include fellow-led sessions for journal club, case conference, and presentation of fellows’ year long quality improvement projects (in the Spring). Fellows also have access to UChicago Medicine’s Internal Medicine Grand Round sessions (weekly) and Maclean Center for Ethics case conferences.

Schwartz Center Rounds

A monthly multidisciplinary forum where caregivers discuss difficult emotional and social issues that arise in caring for patients.