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Integrating a palliative care longitudinal track into a family medicine residency program.

156 Background: Palliative care and Palliative care skills are being instituted in many hospitals and clinics as they have been shown to improve health care outcomes and decrease costs. While health care organizations are adopting these coordinated care programs, finding competent physicians to work effectively in these programs is difficult.

METHODS: PIH Health Hospital Whittier Family Medicine Residency Program developed a longitdudinal Palliative Care and Chronic Disease track to generate a transformed workforce of future family physicians that can deliver innovative, empathetic and effective care for seriously ill patients who are at risk due to health disparities, advanced multiple chronic conditions, or frailty. We applied for and obtained a Unihealth grant to fund the track development as well as funding through our sponsoring hospital. The Palliative Care track has its own NRMP residency Match number, differentiating it from the categorical residency program. Each year we accept two residents to enter our track. Using a multidisciplinary approach and faculty, the track meets every two weeks in seminar sessions to train residents in the broad scope of Palliative Care. As part of the track, residents then rotate two months in their senior years in our hospital's palliative care service.

RESULTS: An exhaustive medical literature review has shown that our program is unique in its scope and breadth. We have accepted our fifth class of residents that will be entering the track this July, 2016.

CONCLUSIONS: PIH Health Hospital Whittier Family Medicine Residency Program has created an unique and academically sound program to train Family Medicine residents in Palliative Care.

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