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(Note: The above list does not guarantee availability. Sessions fill months in advance and registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.)

The Leaders

• Steven Z. Pantilat, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
• Michael W. Rabow, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
• Eva Chittenden, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine

The Location

• San Francisco, California

UCSF At-a-Glance

• Adult consult service and inpatient unit as well as a specialized pediatric program
• Hospitalist-led program at a major academic medical center
• Well-suited to university and community-based medical centers of all sizes
• Experience in teaching palliative care to medical students, residents and hospital staff
• Offers Building Academic Palliative Care curriculum

Who Should Train at the PCLC at UCSF

UCSF is an excellent option for:

• Teams of healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, administrators, social workers and financial officers
• University-based medical centers
• Community-based medical centers
• Hospitalist programs seeking to establish or strengthen adult consult services and/or inpatient units
• Pediatric palliative care services

We have found that PCLC attendees tend to base their decisions on several factors, including geographic proximity, similar institutional setting and particular PCLC offerings.

What Will You Gain from Training at the PCLC at UCSF?

In addition to the proprietary PCLC core curriculum, UCSF can offer attendees:

• Demonstrated success in teaching and mentoring all types of institutions, whether large or small, academic or non-academic, hospice-based, pediatric or otherwise
• Assistance in developing a concrete, customized action plan for instituting a hospital-based palliative care program, including developing cost of care and other data to support such an initiative
• Unique insight regarding a hospitalist-led palliative care program
• Experience teaching palliative care tenets and skills to medical students, residents and hospital staff
• Guidance about integrating palliative care in the ICU environment and how to market palliative care services throughout other departments
• Assessment tools, protocol orders, data collection instruments, journal articles and chapters on clinical palliative care edited by the UCSF team
• Experience developing an inpatient, swing-bed palliative care unit

Sample Curriculum

The on-site, two-day session centers on the PCLC core curriculum. Each session offers hands-on training to develop a successful palliative care program that matches the unique needs of the attendees' settings. Yearlong, post-training mentoring includes follow-up on successful implementation of action plans by the interdisciplinary teaching staff.

Day 1: Program Development, Finance, and Operations
Includes a review of conclusions from homework, goal setting, sessions on clinical care models and staffing, financial performance and outcome measurement

Day 2: Program Implementation and Sustainability
Includes sessions on palliative care from the primary care physician perspective, marketing and generating referrals, community partnerships, securing board and institutional support, educating clinicians and patients and program implementation

More About the University of California, San Francisco

The hospitalist-led UCSF Palliative Care Consultation Service and Comfort Care Suites (CCS) provides both interdisciplinary palliative care consultations, and an inpatient palliative care unit within the hospital. The pediatric program, which includes two comfort-care rooms, integrates consult services via palliative care resource specialists throughout UCSF Children's Hospital. The adult and pediatric palliative care services teach palliative care to house staff, attending physicians, nurses, social workers, case managers, pharmacists and students, in conjunction with providing consultations. In-service and elective courses for trainees are also offered.

Registration and Travel Information

For tuition information and to register, please visit www.capc.org/pclc.

For specific questions about UCSF, including the availability of specific training dates, contact Salina Ng at (415) 476-4838 or ucsfpclc@medicine.ucsf.edu.

For general questions about the registration process, contact Jennifer Raiten at jennifer.raiten@mssm.edu or (212) 201-2683. UCSF is located in San Francisco, California, less than 30 minutes from both Oakland and San Francisco International Airports.