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ENEWS - August, 2006
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1. What's New at www.eperc.mcw.edu
2. Click Here!
3. JAMA Seeking Papers for Theme Issue on Access
to Care
4. Tribute to Balfour Mount
5. Weekly Reading
6. Six ACGME Competency Modules Available Online
7. Meetings/Conferences
8. Job Opportunities
(NOTE: Please make sure long links are not
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1. WHAT'S NEW AT www.eperc.mcw.edu
Fast Fact and Concept #160: Screening for ICU Delirium
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2. CLICK HERE!
http://www.cgea.net
NEW - Central Group on Educational Affairs
http://www.painedu.org/resources.asp
Websites, resources, and news reports on pain
management
http://www.kokuamau.org/index.htm
Kokua Mau - The statewide coalition of more than 250
Hawaiian public agencies, citizens and health care
professionals offers this Website of end-of-life
resources. Dr. Daniel Fischberg is this month's
featured professional.
http://www.npcrc.org
National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC)
a national initiative committed to stimulating,
developing, and funding palliative care research
directed at improving care for patients with
serious illness and their families. The NPCRC
will be releasing its first two RFAs on
September 1, 2006.
http://tinyurl.com/j69yw
The AMA is developing Web-based resources to assist
its members with issues related to health information
technology. You're invited to complete a brief online
survey to help shape these resources. Click the link
above to complete the survey.
http://www.raconline.org/states/
The Rural Assistance Center Web site offers this new
resource providing continuously updated demographics
and statistics, documents and resources and contacts
for all 50 states designed to help health care providers
and human services representatives in rural communities
with activities such as locating and competing for
funding opportunities and networking.
www.promotingexcellence.org
Promoting Excellence has partnered with the National
Hospice and Palliative Care Organization -- find
reports, monographs, and in-depth information about
Palliative Care demonstration projects.
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3. JAMA SEEKING PAPERS for THEME ISSUE ON ACCESS
TO CARE
In March 2007, the Journal of the American
Medical Association (JAMA) will publish a theme
issue devoted to access to health care to
reinvigorate interest in this pressing topic.
Some Archives journals will also publish theme
issues or include articles on this topic at that
time. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts
on virtually any topic relevant to the issue of
access to health care by Oct. 1.
Visit http://tinyurl.com/k639t to read the call
for papers.
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4. TRIBUTE TO BALFOUR MOUNT
A book of tribute to Balfour Mount will be presented
at the 16th International Congress on Care of the
Terminally Ill. Many of you have already sent your
letters or emails with your thoughts, anecdotes and
memories of Balfour Mount.
For those of you who have not yet sent their messages
and, who would like to participate, we need to have
your letter as soon as possible so that we can begin
to put the 'Memory Album' together.
August 23rd is the very latest date for letters and/
or emails. After that we can't guarantee to include
your letter.
mailto:anna.towers@muhc.mcgill.ca
Dr. Anna Towers
Congress Chair
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5. WEEKLY READING
+ + + Article Abstracts Available on PubMed + + +
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sanders C, Seymour J, Clarke A, Gott M, Welton M
Development of a peer education programme for
advance end-of-life care planning.
Int J Palliat Nurs. 2006 May;12(5):214, 216-23.
PubMed ID: 16835561
Van Vorst RF, Crane LA, Barton PL, Kutner JS,
Kallail KJ, Westfall JM
Barriers to quality care for dying patients
in rural communities.
J Rural Health. 2006 Summer;22(3):248-53.
PubMed ID: 16824170
Kim S, Farber S, Kolko BE, Kim W, Ellsbury KE,
Greer T
Faculty and student participation in online
discussions of palliative care scenarios.
Fam Med. 2006 Jul;38(7):494-9.
PubMed ID: 16823675
Song MK. Sereika SM. (mailto:songm@pitt.edu)
An evaluation of the Decisional Conflict Scale for measuring the quality
of end-of-life decision making.
Patient Education & Counseling. 61(3):397-404, 2006 Jun.
PubMed ID: 15970420
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6. SIX ACGME COMPETENCY MODULES AVAILABLE
ONLINE
http://tinyurl.com/zg5fd
Timothy Quill, MD and the University of
Rochester Medical Center invite you to use
these 6 ACGME Competency Project Training
Modules that include a PowerPoint and a
structure for an hour long conference.
(five of the six have embedded video trigger
tape material and the sixth has a series of
interactive pain calculations to go through
with the group)
Each session has reading material associated,
pretest and post test material, a standardized
patient role for testing competence and a 360
evaluation form for demonstration of competence
in practice.
TOPICS
Pain Management
Delivering Bad News
Informed Consent and Capacity
Conducting a Family Meeting to Discuss DNR/CPR
Motivation and Health Behavior
Disclosing Adverse Outcomes
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7. MEETINGS/CONFERENCES/TRAINING
www.naropa.edu/cotemplativecare/
Contemplative End of Life Care Program at
Naropa University
EASE THE SUFFERING -
THE STANFORD PAIN AND PALLIATIVE CARE CONFERENCE 2006
12 noon to 5 pm August 30 & 8 am to 5 pm
August 31, 2006
Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University Campus
Agenda and registration go to http://hospice.stanford.edu
CAPC Teleconference
Reaching Out to Your Referring Physicians,
Part 2: Consultation Etiquette
Presenter: David E. Weissman, MD
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
1:30 - 2:30 PM Eastern
10:30 - 11:30 AM Pacific
http://tinyurl.com/f2648
Fast-Track Your Palliative Care Program:
Palliative Care Leadership Center (PCLC)
Training -
Two days of on-site, hands-on training and
a full year of follow-up mentoring by training
at one of six Palliative Care Leadership
CentersSM (PCLC). You and your team will learn
from the experience of established palliative
care programs how to finance, design, market
and operate a successful program.
For Fall 2006 training sessions dates:
www.capc.org/palliative-care-leadership-initiative
Become an EPEC Trainer &
Become an EPEC Oncology
(EPEC-O) Trainer
Concurrent Conferences
October 20-22, 2006
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
www.epec.net
call 312/503-3732 or mailto:info@epec.net
Building Palliative Care Programs in
Hospitals: Tools and Strategies for Success
November 2-4, 2006
InterContinental Chicago
http://tinyurl.com/q7w3v
Spirituality & Healing in Medicine:
Including New Intercessory Prayer Findings
and the Concept of Emergence
Under the direction of - Herbert Benson, MD
and Christina M. Pulchalski, MD
December 2-3, 2006
The Westin Copley Place
Boston, MA
http://tinyurl.com/qs8kh
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8. JOB OPPORTUNITIES
+++Stanford Hospital and Clinics seeks a full-
time physician for an innovative, palliative
care consultation team. The position carries
an academic appointment in the clinician-educator
line (General Internal Medicine) at the
appropriate rank.
Qualifications:
•Must be board-certified/eligible in palliative
medicine
•Fellowship training in palliative medicine is
strongly preferred
•Prior experience in palliative care consultations
beyond training desirable
To apply, submit:
•Curriculum vitae
•Personal statement describing addressing why such
a position is desirable and a good fit for the
applicant’s interests, experience, and career
goals during the next five to 10 years
•Contact information for three professional
references (mailing address, telephone, fax,
and email address)
Dr. James Hallenbeck
Director, Palliative Care Services
Stanford University School of Medicine
3801 Miranda Avenue, 100-2C
Palo Alto, CA 94304
mailto:james.hallenbeck@va.gov
+++The Brookdale University Hospital and
Medical Center
TWO new positions with exciting opportunity to
join existing interdisciplinary Palliative Care
Team to coordinate, enhance and expand Palliative
Care Services to patients at a teaching hospital
serving a culturally diverse patient population
located in southeastern Brooklyn.
(a)Nurse Practitioner
F/T Days; Competitive Salary and Benefits
Education: Advanced Practice Nurse with appropriate
licensure and credentialing to practice under the supervision
of a physician.
Experience: Training and experience with Hospice or Palliative
Care services preferred. Minimum of 5 years direct patient care experience; practice experience in the areas of internal medicine, geriatrics, oncology preferred.
(b)Social Worker
P/T 20 hour week, Competitive Salary and Benefits
Education: LMSW or LCSW
Experience: Minimum three-five years experience in the areas of gerontology or oncology.
Contact person: Stacey Nelson RN MSA, MSW, LCSW
Assistant Director of Nursing for Recruitment and Retention
Phone: 718-240-5300
Fax: 718-240-6496
Email: mailto:snelson@brookdale.edu
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