Perspectives of Physicians with Dual Certification in a Surgical Specialty and Hospice and Palliative Medicine

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CONCLUSION: Holistic application review using standardized faculty-assigned score results in statistically high but imperfect concordance. If not adjusted, it alters the interview offer for 22% applicants. There is a remarkable stability of faculty evaluations over different interview days. We recommend program self-evaluation and consideration of interfaculty weight adjustment.

Palliative care in gynecologic oncology: a narrative review of current literature and vision for the future

“…In a study of surgeons who completed hospice and palliative medicine, key barriers to completion of specialty palliative care training were bias from surgeons and the palliative care community. Participants found that palliative medicine faculty members made assumptions that surgeons lacked the necessary knowledge and clinical attributes to succeed in a hospice and palliative medicine fellowship (51). These findings indicate that HPM fellowship directors and program faculty would benefit from education about the rigor of surgical residency training and how to incorporate surgical trainees into their fellowship programs, especially given that ACGME and ABME allow for a variety of trainees to apply and qualify for HPM certification (52).…”