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Participant Comments:
| "The PCEP class was absolutely critical to my being able to finally start a Palliative Care program at my hospital. I had been trying for five years to receive funding for an inpatient PC consult service, without success. PCEP not only gave me great credibility (due to the 'Harvard' connection), it also prepared me to be a better clinician and educator. I highly recommend the program to anyone interested in furthering the field of Palliative Medicine." Shoshana Helman, MD,
Medical Director, Palliative Care |
"The PCEP course was a transformative event for me. It helped me find new capabilities within myself that both affirmed and deepened my commitment to pediatric palliative care. It has also helped me develop a network of colleagues, an invaluable asset in building my own pediatric palliative care program and caring for patients." Larry Fenton, Chairman, Sanford Children's Hospital, PCEP Class of 2007 |
"Thank you for a truly transformative experience that I (and, clearly, many others) had through PCEP. Those were certainly the best two weeks of education (in the broadest sense of the word) I've ever had, which is saying a lot given how many years I went to school. " Robert Mcauley, Medical Director of Clinical Ethics, Fletcher Allen Health Care Pediatrician, Clinicl Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Vermont College of Medicine, PCEP class of 2006 |
"My thanks to you for bringing the Harvard classes together during the AAHPM Conference! I continue to value this experience as one of the highlights of my career in palliative care with its benefits far-reaching. There are so many times when I find myself drawing upon something from the class and/or making contact with one of my class colleagues as a resource." Jane C. Sidwell, LMSW-AP, RN, CHPN, Palliative Care Nurse, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital |
Impact of PCEP
• Evaluations of the Course:
Compared to other continuing education programs that you have participated in, how would you rate the effectiveness of this program's format for your learning:
Far
more effective 100%
Somewhat more effective 0%
Equally effective 0%
Somewhat less effective 0%
Far less effective 0%
How important do you think the networking that you have done in this course will be to your future work in palliative care?
Very
important 83.3%
Somewhat important 16.7%
Not very important 0%
To what extent has this program strengthened your commitment to palliative
care as a career?
Greatly
strengthened 75.0%
Somewhat strengthened 25.0%
A little strengthened 0%
Not at all 0%
Would you consider your experience here to be transformative in any important
way?
Yes,
definitely 75.0%
Yes, somewhat 25.0%
No, not really 0%
No, not at all 0%
Overall
rating of the entire course (1=lowest rating, 5=highest rating):
1-3
= 0%
4
= 4.2%
5
= 95.8%
Median
Rating: 4.9
• Research
» A research study demonstrating the impact of the Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice course was published in the September 2006 volume of J Gen Intern Med, "Creating Enduring Change: Demonstrating the Long-Term Impact of a Faculty Development Program in Palliative Care." To read, click here.
» A previous article on this topic was published in Academic Medicine, July 2005, "Teaching and Learning End-of-Life Care: Evaluation of a Faculty Development Program in Palliative Care." To read, click here.
If you would like to contact us, please send an e-mail to pallcare@partners.org or call 617-582-7859.
HMS Center for Palliative
Care
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Shields Warren Building 411
44 Binney Street
Boston, MA 02115
Telephone: 617-582-7859