Center to Advance Palliative Care & Milbank Foundation for Rehabilitation Issue Call for Applications
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) will award teams from five academic medical centers the opportunity to train at a Palliative Care Leadership CentersSM (PCLC) site of their choice and receive a full year of mentoring by PCLC expert faculty.
New York, NY (PRWEB) October 28, 2007 -- The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) will award teams from five academic medical centers the opportunity to train at a Palliative Care Leadership CentersSM (PCLC) site of their choice and receive a full year of mentoring by PCLC expert faculty.
The Milbank Foundation for Rehabilitation is funding this important initiative to enhance palliative care education at medical school--affiliated teaching hospitals through the development of clinical palliative care programs.
"Our goal is to assist scholarship recipients in developing a robust palliative care program that provides critical patient care and serves as an educational and research platform," says Lisa Morgan, CAPC Director of Communications.
PCLC provides intensive, hands-on training and a full year of one-on-one mentoring to resolve the challenges of palliative care program development and growth. Training sites for Building Academic Palliative Care include:
| | - Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), Milwaukee, WI
- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA
- Virginia Commonwealth University, Massey Cancer Center (VCU),
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Richmond, VA
The application deadline for the Building Academic Palliative Care Scholarship Award is December 14, 2007. To learn more and apply, visit http://www.capc.org/Milbank-scholarship
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) provides health care professionals with the tools, training, and technical assistance necessary to start and sustain successful palliative care programs in hospitals and other health care settings. Located at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, CAPC is a national organization dedicated to increasing the availability of quality palliative care services for people facing serious illness. http://www.capc.org
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