About the Fellowship
The BCM Pediatric Palliative Care Fellowship is an ACGME-accredited one year clinical fellowship that was started in 2017 and housed mainly at Texas Children’s Hospital. We have a large and diverse faculty, have graduated five fellows, and have a robust curriculum that prepares our fellows for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Board Exam. We accept two fellows per year, accept applications through ERAS and participate in the NRMP.
Our program trains pediatric hospice and palliative medicine physicians who are competent in providing sub-specialized clinical care and who contribute to the growing pediatric palliative care workforce and body of knowledge.
Program Highlights
- Our program gives fellows unparalleled clinical experience through exposure to a high volume and great breadth of pediatric, adolescent, and young adult patients.
- Our fellows will become equipped with unique tools and skills in pain and symptom management; end of life care; aiding patients, families, and healthcare teams with complex medical decision making; and grief and bereavement support.
- The curriculum exposes fellows to academic and educational language and practice through mentored scholarly and teaching activities, quality improvement didactics, feedback, and journal clubs.
- We provide a learning and work environment that values and teaches patient safety, quality of clinical care, provider well-being, and interdisciplinary teamwork.
Admissions and Benefits
We accept two fellows per year, accept applications through ERAS and participate in the NRMP.
All interviews are conducted virtually.
See stipends and benefit information on the ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ of Medicine’s graduate medical education website. Stipend levels are at the national average, but Houston's cost of living ranks among the lowest of metropolitan areas in the United States.
Maintaining your physical and emotional wellness is a prerequisite to professional success. Our residents have access to a number of programs to support their well-being. View wellness resources.
Information about vacation and leave of absences is available on the graduate medical education website.
Curriculum
Competency-based goals and objectives for all fellowship rotations:
- Texas Children’s Hospital Pediatric Advanced Care Team
- Hospice
- Long Term Care (Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit and Complex Care Clinic
- Adult Inpatient Palliative Care Unit
- Adult Inpatient Palliative Care Consults
- Pain Management
- Research and Quality Improvement
- Elective
Fellowship Didactic Curriculum: One half day every other week is reserved for protected teaching time. Fellows will receive lectures from faculty both within and outside of the palliative care section.
Texas Children’s Hospital Fellow’s College: Educational and networking sessions that occur along with subspecialty fellows from all fields at Texas Children’s Hospital
Fellow’s as Teachers Curriculum: Under guidance from section faculty, fellows practice their own teaching skills in various settings including section education, journal club, and resident noon conference.
Grief and Bereavement Curriculum: A unique experience where fellows partner with Texas Children’s Hospital Grief and Bereavement Specialist to gain knowledge and experience through didactics as well as written correspondence and phone calls to bereaved families.
Narrative Medicine Curriculum: Fellows participate in monthly narrative medicine sessions with members of interdisciplinary team and lead by a trained facilitator.
Scholarly Activity: Fellows engage in a scholarly project and they will work on throughout the year with their SOC (Scholarly Oversight Committee) chair and committee members.
Bootcamp: For the first two weeks of the academic year, Fellows participate in HPM Bootcamp, with core lectures, workshops and orientation sessions to start out the year.
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