About the Pediatric Track
Program Contact
Dr. Paula McPoland
Associate Director,
Pediatric Palliative Fellowship Track
Paula.McPoland@seattlechildrens.org
Shinetra Pryor
Program Administrator
gerhpm@medicine.washington.edu
The Pediatric Track provides pediatricians 8 months of pediatric specific palliative care training. Pediatric fellows rotate through 3 adult inpatient palliative care services to gain additional experience across several hospital settings with varying patient populations and palliative care team structures. The pediatrician has 1 month of adult based hospice through PHOS to ensure adequate exposure to hospice care, to gain experience caring for young adults at the end of life, and to allot time to fulfill hospice visit requirement during the year. There is a 1-month long-term care experience in which the pediatric fellow spends 1 month on the inpatient rehab service at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
The Pediatric Trainee also attends Interdisciplinary Pediatric Palliative and Hospice Team meetings on average at an every other week interval at Providence Hospice of Seattle with the Stepping Stones Team, providing opportunities and experience as a medical director for a home based pediatric palliative care and hospice team. Through this experience, the fellow has opportunities to complete home visits throughout the year on both palliative care and hospice patients.
The ambulatory clinic experience for the pediatrician is the same experience as the adult fellows, which is met through the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance: Adult Oncology Palliative Care Clinic.
Curriculum
- 4 months Inpatient Palliative Care at Seattle Children’s on the Pediatric Advanced Care Team
- 1 month focusing on Home Based Pediatric Palliative Care and Hospice through Providence Hospice of Seattle’s Stepping Stones team.
- 2 month Elective at SCH: Options include additional rotations with the PAC team, inpatient pain medicine, Medically Complex Child consultation, and ambulatory clinic experiences in pain medicine, rehab medicine, or another specialty clinic.
- 1 month Long-term care experience completed on the Seattle Children’s Inpatient Rehab unit. Additional experiences include visiting several pediatric long-term care facilities in the community.
- 1 month UW Inpatient Palliative Care (Adult Service)
- 1 month VA Community Living Center - Hospice (Adult Service)
- 1 month HMC Inpatient Palliative Care (Adult Service with Pediatric opportunities in the PICU)
- 1 month Providence Hospice of Seattle (PHOS) (Adult focused Hospice Care)