Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Brassil, Michelle E.; Cheville, Andrea L.; Zheng, Jasmine; Smith, Sean R.; Tolchin, Dorothy W.; Wittry, Sarah; Jones, Christopher A.; Chernack, Betty

doi:10.1089/jpm.2019.0440

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“…In fact, developing clinical PC opportunities for PM&R residents can facilitate two-way education. Physical medicine and rehabilitation residents rotating on PC services could educate PC specialists about PM&R and indications for PM&R consultation; for example, physiatrists hold relevant expertise in adaptive equipment, transitions between levels of care, multimodal approaches to fatigue, and immobility 14 . Physical medicine and rehabilitation residents could also add valuable clinical input, for example, in nonpharmacologic management of pain and dyspnea, strategies for addressing communication impairments, optimizing home safety and family training.…”

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The State of Palliative Care Education in United States Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Programs

Tolchin

Brooks

Knowlton

2022

Am J Phys Med Rehabil

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Physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians routinely care for patients with serious illness and injury who could benefit from an integrated palliative care approach due to the propensity for high or complex symptom burden. Despite this, it has been unknown whether and how physical medicine and rehabilitation residency programs are equipping residents with a foundational palliative care skillset. We report national survey results characterizing the current status of palliative care education within US physical medicine and rehabilitation residency programs. Programs vary widely in the type and amount of palliative care education provided, with nearly a third of responding programs reporting no palliative care education at all. These findings suggest the need for nationally unifying palliative care education standards for physical medicine and rehabilitation residency programs to ensure that all physical medicine and rehabilitation residents have the opportunity to develop a robust palliative lens that can be applied across rehabilitation practice settings. An articulated set of standards could both facilitate achievement of palliative care-specific objectives and support achievement of foundational physical medicine and rehabilitation residency program objectives.

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confidence: 99%