Hybrid Theory: Creation of a Faculty Position That Allows Half-Time Hospice Employment Alongside Academic Palliative Care.
academic advancement
hospice
palliative care
strategic alliance
Journal
Palliative medicine reports
ISSN: 2689-2820
Titre abrégé: Palliat Med Rep
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101770666
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2022
2022
Historique:
accepted:
25
07
2022
entrez:
6
3
2023
pubmed:
7
3
2023
medline:
7
3
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The specialty of hospice and palliative medicine struggles to merge the fast-paced technological consultative work of acute hospital palliative care with slower paced and home-based hospice. Each has equal if different merits. Here, we describe creation of a position that allowed half-time hospice employment, alongside academic hospital-based palliative care. Johns Hopkins Medicine and Gilchrist, Inc., a large nonprofit hospice, partnered to form a joint position with time spent equally between the two locations. Created as a university position with "leasing" to the hospice, specific attention has been paid to mentoring at both sites to allow professional advancement. Both organizations have benefited in terms of recruitment, and more physicians have chosen this dual pathway suggesting that it is working well. Hybrid positions are possible and may be desired by those who wish to practice both palliative medicine and hospice. Creation of one successful position helped recruit a second and a third candidate a year later. The original recipient has been promoted within Gilchrist to direct the inpatient unit. Such positions require careful mentoring and coordination to allow success at both sites and this can be done with foresight.
Sections du résumé
Background
UNASSIGNED
The specialty of hospice and palliative medicine struggles to merge the fast-paced technological consultative work of acute hospital palliative care with slower paced and home-based hospice. Each has equal if different merits. Here, we describe creation of a position that allowed half-time hospice employment, alongside academic hospital-based palliative care.
Methods
UNASSIGNED
Johns Hopkins Medicine and Gilchrist, Inc., a large nonprofit hospice, partnered to form a joint position with time spent equally between the two locations.
Results
UNASSIGNED
Created as a university position with "leasing" to the hospice, specific attention has been paid to mentoring at both sites to allow professional advancement. Both organizations have benefited in terms of recruitment, and more physicians have chosen this dual pathway suggesting that it is working well.
Discussion
UNASSIGNED
Hybrid positions are possible and may be desired by those who wish to practice both palliative medicine and hospice. Creation of one successful position helped recruit a second and a third candidate a year later. The original recipient has been promoted within Gilchrist to direct the inpatient unit. Such positions require careful mentoring and coordination to allow success at both sites and this can be done with foresight.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36876295
doi: 10.1089/pmr.2022.0013
pii: 10.1089/pmr.2022.0013
pmc: PMC9983127
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
225-228Informations de copyright
© Michael Cafarchio et al., 2022; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Dr. Danielle Doberman discloses previous expert testimony work on behalf of the defense of the hospice industry.
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