Gaps in Hospice, Palliative Care Clinical Training Impede Provider Recruitment

A lack of nursing and medical education in hospice and palliative care creates an additional obstacle for providers trying to push back against industry-wide labor shortages. Not only are hospices competing with other health care sectors for new hires, but the vast majority of clinicians entering the workforce are unprepared to provide those services. Most […]

Palliative Care Externship Seeks to Advance Specialty Training

In the midst of ongoing staffing shortages that have been exacerbated by the pandemic, the hospice and palliative care communities have had to get creative in how they train incoming clinicians. The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has designed an “externship” program to speed the professional development of advanced practice providers (APP). The term […]