A message from the Program Director
Welcome to NOSM University’s 12-month residency program in Enhanced Skills in Palliative Care! Our new program offers residents an opportunity to train with palliative care specialists across Northern Ontario and learn the important skills needed to treat patients living with life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses. Residents will rotate through a broad variety of urban and rural palliative care sites and will have a mandatory rotation on a tertiary palliative care unit in Southern Ontario at a large urban centre to gain exposure to high-volume complex symptom management and psychosocial support strategies. There will be opportunities for electives to support a resident’s specific learning goals and future career. The program aims to be disease agnostic, providing residents with the chance to care for patients living with all varieties of complex, life-threatening and life-limiting diagnoses.
Dedicated academic time will be provided to help enhance learning and create space for a balanced approach to training. During this protected time residents will attend a lecture series taught by palliative care experts practicing across Northern Ontario. They will also have a chance to interact with PGY3 learners across Canada during National Academic days curated by the Canadian Society of Palliative Medicine. A culminating scholarly project will give trainees the chance to demonstrate their honed skills as subject matter experts and reinforce their roles as leaders and educators in palliative care in Northern Ontario.
Our unique geographic location gives NOSM U attendees the distinctive opportunity to train in both larger urban centres, and small rural communities. Learners will have the chance to experience first hand the beauty and the challenges of delivering primary palliative care and consultant-level palliative across our vast and rugged landscape. A special emphasis will be placed throughout the year on what it means to provide culturally safer palliative care.
Opportunities to engage in collaboration with interprofessional health care providers (nurses, social workers, rehabilitation specialists, etc) will be encouraged. Formal and informal mentorship will be integrated across the training program with the resident becoming embedded in the local palliative care community. Mentorship will also be extended to include career development, and create space to support learner wellness throughout the year.
Megan Sellick
Program Development Lead
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