How to Meet the New 2019 ACGME Requirements to Incorporate Palliative and Hospice Medicine into a Teaching Community Hospital's IM GME Residency Program (QI635)
As of July 2019, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires IM GME programs to incorporate training in palliative and hospice medicine. Miscomprehension of the difference between palliative medicine and hospice is a barrier for IM residents' ordering appropriate PM consults for patients with chronic, nonmalignant disease.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Phyllis Macchio, Greg Haggerty, Martin Barnes, Carolina de Elia, Alan Kaell Source Type: research
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