Hospice and Palliative Care Faculty Physician- UPMC Altoona

Overview UPMC Altoona Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship is seeking an ABFM or AOBFP certified family medicine or internal medicine physician with board eligibility or board certification in Hospice and Palliative Medicine to join our team as a faculty attending physician. Experience in academic medicine is preferred but not required. We are a single trainee fellowship program affiliated with Altoona Family Physicians, which is a well-established 8‑8‑8 rurally oriented, full spectrum, university‑affiliated program located in Central Pennsylvania. We also have an associated transitional year residency. Responsibilities Provide consultation and management services in the inpatient setting, in our outpatient palliative clinic, and at three local nursing homes. Oversee the fellowship, including teaching, supervision, and assessment of fellows. Provide oversight of residents on their geriatric rotations, precept residents in the family medicine office, and cover the inpatient medicine service while seeing our own family medicine patients. Qualifications Exemplifies the UPMC core values of quality and safety, dignity and respect, caring and listening, responsibility and integrity, and excellence and innovation. Possesses vision and enthusiasm for continued excellence in training hospice and palliative medicine physicians. Fellowship Program Our fellowship program has a strong history of successful completion, boasting a 100 % board exam pass rate. This success is due to our excellent hands‑on training, including active management of a wide variety of diagnoses and acuity, and well‑formulated didactics. Because we are the only fellowship at our hospital, the fellow has the opportunity to learn from a variety of subspecialists. Our sponsoring institution is UPMC Graduate Medical Education, with UPMC Altoona being our affiliated hospital. We are closely integrated with the family medicine residency, providing oversight of residents on their geriatric rotations and occasionally precepting residents in the family medicine office. Location Our fellowship program is located in beautiful central PA, about two hours from Pittsburgh and three hours from Baltimore/Washington. Altoona offers an affordable cost of living, a small metropolitan atmosphere, scenic rural surroundings, diverse dining, year‑round outdoor recreation, sports, cultural events, arts, religious diversity, excellent public and private schools, and numerous higher education institutions. UPMC Altoona is an equal opportunity employer. #J-18808-Ljbffr