Incorporating palliative radiotherapy education into hospice and palliative medicine fellowship training: a feasibility study | Zendy

Emily Martin | Zendy; Vinit Nalawade | Zendy; James D. Murphy | Zendy; Joshua Jones | Zendy

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Incorporating palliative radiotherapy education into hospice and palliative medicine fellowship training: a feasibility study

Author(s) -

Emily Martin,

Vinit Nalawade,

James D. Murphy,

Joshua Jones

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

annals of palliative medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546

H-Index - 19

eISSN - 2224-5839

pISSN - 2224-5820

DOI - 10.21037/apm.2019.04.02

Subject(s) - medicine , palliative care , radiation therapy , intervention (counseling) , curriculum , descriptive statistics , radiation therapist , radiation oncology , family medicine , nursing , psychology , pedagogy , statistics , mathematics

Insufficient knowledge of radiotherapy among hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) physicians is a barrier to providing optimal palliative care. We sought to assess the impact of a palliative radiotherapy curriculum on the knowledge, attitudes, and practice behaviors of HPM fellows at a single institution.

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