Palliative Care Unit - Victoria Hospital LHSC
| Contact person: | Dr. Gil Schreier, Palliative Care Unit, LHSC - Victoria Hospital |
London Health Sciences Center has a 14 bed acute care, academic Palliative Care Unit at the Victoria Hospital site (C6-200). Patients are admitted to this unit directly from the community or transferred from other services throughout the LHSC after palliative care consultation. The palliative care consult team sees patients throughout the hospital, helping the medical and surgical services manage pain and other symptom issues as well as providing assistance with end-of-life care. Residents will manage difficult pain and symptom problems as well as dealing with complex medical, social, psychological, and spiritual issues that arise in patients with advanced cancer or other life-threatening disease.
A focus will be placed on learning about opiates and systemic pharmacotherapy used in the management of pain and symptoms. Residents will also be exposed to other therapies utilized for patients on the unit, including the services of Physical and Occupational Therapy as well as Radiation Oncology and Medical Oncology. Residents will also learn about the integral role of family conferences in Palliative Care.
Residents would be working with the multidisciplinary palliative care team consisting of: 2 Palliative Medicine physicians, 2 Nurse Practitioners, 1 Social Worker, 1 Physiotherapist, and 1 Occupational Therapist. Pain and symptom rounds take place on a weekly basis and residents will be expected to prepare topics for presentation at these teaching rounds.
Scheduling: Can take 2 residents/block
