TTUHSC School of Medicine
Family Medicine

Texas Tech Palliative Care Fellowship

Department of Family & Community Medicine • Lubbock

palliative care

Program Vision

Train fellows who will be competent in all areas of patient and family care in the fields of both Hospice and Palliative Medicine to become clinician leaders for the institutions in which they will work.

Educational Strengths

It is the overall goal of this fellowship to produce doctors that are competent in all aspects of fields of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.  The fellows will be exposed to and work within teams who have built practices of excellence in these areas.  We will use the guidelines provided in Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care as the key map of what objectives to pursue.  Lubbock is uniquely prepared to accomplish these goals as we have the following components present:

  1. The program director is also a full-time medical director for a local hospice, allowing the fellows excellent training in home- and long-term-care facility patient assessments and treatment.  It  also allows them see system-based practice features with exposure to the role of medical director.
  2. The program is partnered with a local hospice that provides pediatric care with a medical director who is a pediatric oncologists, allowing fellows excellent training in pediatric hospice care.
  3. The primary hospice site has a free standing in-patient unit, allowing excellent training in in-patient hospice care.
  4. The fellows will spend 6 months with a successful in-patient palliative care consult service at a community hospital, allowing excellent training in the field of palliative medicine in a multi-discipline team that is recognized as being a leader in the palliative medicine in this region with unique services such as consultation to the pediatric and neonatal intensive care units and consultation as part of the trauma team at the hospital.
  5. The program features a didactic series using the latest in education theories for building the fellows ability to be life-long learners and have competency based education in professionalism, system-based practice, medical knowledge, communication skills, and practice-based learning.  The didactics are modeled after educational leadership being provided by the Palliative Care Education Project of Harvard University.
  6. Most of the physicians with whom the fellows will be working are Board Certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, including the hospice director and the palliative care physician leader.

It is the intent of the educators of this program not only to model patient and family care, but also to model how to provide leadership for the hospice and palliative care movement in the areas in which they work in the future.  This program offers direct training in the aspects of being a medical director, in how to produce quality improvement programs and scholarly pursuits, and in personal growth and development of leadership skills.

Requirements

HOW TO APPLY

Contact Heather Cortez for an application:

heather.cortez@ttuhsc.edu

743-7864

Mail your application to:

Family Medicine Palliative Care Fellowship
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
3601 4th Street, MS 8143
Lubbock, TX 79430

Or email it to:

tommie.farrell@ttuhsc.edu

OUR FACILITIES

PALLIATIVE MEDICINE FACULTY

CONTACT US:

Feel free to contact the Department of Family and Community Medicine with any questions you may have:

Family Medicine
Palliative Care Fellowship
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
3601 4th Street, MS 8143
Lubbock, TX 79430

Download the brochure for the Palliative Care Fellowship here:

Palliative Care Fellowship Brochure

Meet Our Palliative Care Fellows Here

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