{"id":40173,"date":"2026-09-22T15:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/?page_id=40173"},"modified":"2026-09-25T14:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:28:36","slug":"clinic-experience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/uconn-inter-professional-palliative-care-fellowship\/clinic-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinic Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-40173\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-40173-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-40173-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-40173-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p>Weekly for least 32 weeks, the fellow will have their half-day continuity palliative care clinic and three one-week blocks focused on ambulatory practice. Palliative Medicine clinic visits address advance care planning, pain and non-pain symptom management, and support for coping with serious illness. Referrals come from a variety of sources including, post-hospitalization, neurology, geriatrics, cardiology and pulmonology. Patients complete an Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) prior to each visit to monitor their symptoms and assess level of spiritual and\/or psychosocial distress. The supervising physician will precept the fellow during clinic and be available for issues that arise between visits. Fellows are expected to participate in patient care longitudinally, responding to messages and prescription queries between visits, and seeing patients in other settings, such as during hospitalization and at home, when feasible. The fellow is expected to take ownership of patients seen in clinic, communicating with referring providers and advocating, when necessary, for the patients.<\/p>\n<p>During the 1-week ambulatory blocks, the fellow will attend at least 5 half-day clinic sessions, including clinics embedded in neurology and the cancer center. These weeks will include didactics specific to outpatient issues, such as longitudinal opioid management, interpretation of urine drug screening, outpatient management of common symptoms, such as pain, sleep disturbance, anorexia, illness adjustment with anxiety and depression. Trajectories of common illnesses in the advanced stages and completion of advance care planning (e.g. health care proxy and MOLST forms) will be reviewed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uconnhealth.org\/locations\/outpatient-pavilion\" rel=\"\">UConn Ambulatory Outpatient Pavilion<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly for least 32 weeks, the fellow will have their half-day continuity palliative care clinic and three one-week blocks focused on ambulatory practice. Palliative Medicine clinic visits address advance care planning, pain and non-pain symptom management, and support for coping with serious illness. Referrals come from a variety of sources including, post-hospitalization, neurology, geriatrics, cardiology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5287,"featured_media":0,"parent":40115,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40173","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-06 17:43:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40174,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40173\/revisions\/40174"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}