What You Will Gain from Training with the PCLC at UCSF
UCSF can offer attendees:
Demonstrated success in teaching and mentoring all types of institutions, whether large or small, academic or non-academic, from all regions of the country
Assistance in developing a concrete, customized action plan for instituting a hospital palliative care program, including developing cost of care and other data to support such an initiative
Unique insight regarding a hospitalist-led palliative care program
Experience teaching palliative care tenets and skills to medical students, residents and hospital staff
Guidance about integrating palliative care in the ICU environment and how to market palliative care services throughout other departments
Assessment tools, protocol orders, data collection instruments, journal articles and chapters on clinical palliative care edited by the UCSF team
Experience developing an inpatient "swing-bed" palliative care unit