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Clinical Palliative Care

St. Joseph’s Health Centre Palliative and Supportive Care Service 

Under the auspices of the Palliative Medicine Residency Program

University of Toronto Fellowships in Clinical Palliative Care are available to Graduates of Family Medicine Residency Programs.

The Clinical Palliative Care PGY3 Enhanced Skills Program is offered at St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto. St. Joseph’s Health Centre is a community teaching hospital and it has the vision to be the best community teaching hospital in Canada. The Palliative and Supportive Care Service at St. Joseph’s Health Centre is provides both hospital, ambulatory and home-based palliative care to patients with both malignant and non-malignant illnesses. The service’s physicians are based in the St. Joseph's Health Centre’s Urban Family Health Team and are also involved in teaching in the Family Medicine Residency Program at St. Joseph's Health Centre.

The Clinical Palliative Care PGY3 Enhanced Skills Program at St. Joseph's Health Centre was established in 2003 under the auspices of the University of Toronto Conjoint Palliative Medicine Residency Program. It was developed in response to the need for a shorter and clinically oriented residency program for family medicine residents who wished to primarily practice family medicine and also incorporate palliative care into their family practice.

Goals of the Clinical Palliative Care Program

Through the Clinical Palliative Care PGY3 Enhanced Skills Program, the resident will develop an understanding of the core principals of Palliative Care and develop clinical skills to practice palliative medicine in the hospital and community, including the home palliative care setting. Residents will learn the skills, knowledge, and attitudes related to the management of physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of dying patients and their families.

The goal of the Clinical Palliative Care Enhanced Skills Program will be to train physicians to have added competency in the area of Palliative Care medicine and to be able to provide primary and consultative palliative care services within their community. The program is directed at physicians who wish to incorporate palliative care into an active family practice and to work with other family physicians providing palliative care services in their community. For those residents wishing to specialize in palliative care at a tertiary level and focus their practice solely in palliative care, the one-year Conjoint Palliative Medicine Residency program would be a more appropriate choice.

The residency program is 6 months in length. There are two positions available per academic year (July-December) (January-June) Core rotations include both inpatient and home-based palliative care at St. Joseph’s Health Centre. Residents also have rotations in Medical Oncology and Palliative Radiation Oncology. Elective experiences are also available and are integrated into the Core Palliative Care Rotations. Residents are expected to participate in evening and weekend call. Residents are expected to be involved in a scholarly activity. Residents are encouraged to participate in the University of Toronto Conjoint Palliative Medicine Residency’s academic activities.


For the Academic Year 2011-2012, interviews will be held on Thursday, November 18. Please make arrangements early to be available for that day.

For further information, please contact Dr. Christa Jeney at jeneyc@stjoe.on.ca or by calling 416-530-6000 Ext. 3969


APPLICATION INFORMATION

Heather Huckfield

Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM)
University of Toronto – Faculty of Medicine
500 University Ave. 3rd Floor
Toronto, ON M5G 1V7
Phone: (416) 978-1019
Fax: (416) 978-8179
Email: fammed.enhanced@utoronto.ca


Application Deadline: October 14 2011

Notification of Acceptance: December 20 2011

Resident Acceptance of Position Deadline: January 4 2012