TY - JOUR
T1 - VA Interprofessional Fellowship in Palliative Care
T2 - 15 Years of Training Excellence
AU - Weller, Ryan
AU - Healy, Jennifer
AU - Hettler, Debbie L.
AU - Howe, Judith L.
AU - Smith, Heather M.
AU - Steckart, M. Jillisa
AU - Periyakoil, Vyjeyanthi S.
N1 - Funding Information:
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has trained hundreds of professionals from a variety of professions in the specialty of palliative care. From the dozens of VA facilities that provide fellowship training in palliative care, six were selected and funded by the VA to offer education as the VA Interprofessional Fellowship Program in Palliative Care. Collectively, these six sites have prepared over 500 professionals to work and lead in palliative and hospice care. This training program gives fellows the chance to learn side-by-side with peers from other professions, mirroring the interprofessional structure of hospice and palliative care clinical teams. This article will focus on the experience of the associated health professions of the fellowship, including the origins of the program, the lived experiences of six sites working in collaboration, fellow feedback about the program, post-fellowship career choices, and lessons learned that may be helpful to organizations interested in replicating the VA interprofessional palliative care training model.
Publisher Copyright:
©, This work was authored as part of the Contributor's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Since 2002, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has provided a unique training opportunity in palliative care at six VA medical centers. The VA Interprofessional Fellowship in Palliative Care has trained chaplains, nurses, pharmacists, physicians, psychologists, and social workers to provide clinical palliative care and to develop as leaders in the profession. This article describes the program’s origin, mission, outcomes, and lessons learned.
AB - Since 2002, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has provided a unique training opportunity in palliative care at six VA medical centers. The VA Interprofessional Fellowship in Palliative Care has trained chaplains, nurses, pharmacists, physicians, psychologists, and social workers to provide clinical palliative care and to develop as leaders in the profession. This article describes the program’s origin, mission, outcomes, and lessons learned.
KW - Fellowship
KW - interprofessional
KW - palliative care
KW - veterans
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85070497154&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85070497154&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15524256.2019.1645797
DO - 10.1080/15524256.2019.1645797
M3 - Article
C2 - 31385743
AN - SCOPUS:85070497154
VL - 15
SP - 85
EP - 98
JO - Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care
JF - Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care
SN - 1552-4256
IS - 2-3
ER -