Palliative Care

Are you considering a career transition to hospice or palliative care? The AAEM Palliative Care Committee would like to help! We are creating a mentor network to connect those in hospice or palliative practice with EM docs considering a change. If you are interested in speaking with someone to learn more about potential careers and how to get there, please complete the form below and we’ll have a mentor reach out to you.

• Vital Talk – Trains clinicians in effective communication methods
  • COVID-specific
• Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) – Provides tools, training and technical assistance for all clinicians caring for people with serious illness
  • COVID-specific
• The National Hospice and Palliative Care Association – Shared Decision-Making Tool (COVID-specific)
• California Health Care Foundation
• Honoring Choices. Pacific Northwest – With links to archived webinars. COVID-specific

• Rapid Goals of Care-Communication Workshop-Delivering Bad News (Video)
• NJEM: Who Decides When a Patient Can’t? Statutes on Alternate Decision Makers
• Palliative Care in EM – Numerous topics, articles and guidelines
• Palliative Tool for EM Docs
• 10-Minute Goals of Care Procedure – AAEM19
• ED Comfort Care Transitions – AAEM18

• Recommendations for the Navigation of Moral Dilemmas during the COVID Pandemic

  February 22, 2021

  Emergency Physicians are at potential risk for moral conflict and burnout when trying to accommodate the many challenges for caring for seriously ill patients in the ED. The patient care needs and what the physician “feels is right” have become more apparent with the large volume of patients requiring treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. There […]

• CPR is Not Resuscitation by Tara Shapiro, DO FAAEM, March/April 2023
• End of Life in the Emergency Department by Maggie Putman, DO FAAEM, Jessica Fleischer-Black, MD FAAEM, and Bruce Gutierrez, MD, January/February 2023
• Oxygen is for the Weak by Robyn Hitchcock, MD FAAEM, July/August 2022
• My Journey from ER to Palliative Care by Alexa Gale, MD FAAEM, May/June 2022
• A View from the Middle of My Mid-Career Fellowship by Jessica Fleischer-Black, MD FAAEM, May/June 2021
• Hospital Associated Disability: Is Hospital Admission Really the Safest Disposition for Our Elderly Patients? by Diana Huynh, MD and Austin J. Causey, MD, May/June 2021
• Agnes S. (1918-2020): Great Grandma by Mary Jane Brown, MD FAAEM, March/April 2021

If you are interested in joining our committee, apply today!

Appointments are confirmed on a quarterly basis (January, April, July, October).