Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0

• 61. - Medical residency/fellowship programs
• 61.02 - Multiple-pathway medical fellowship programs

61.0205 - Hospice and palliative medicine fellowship programs

This instructional program class comprises any fellowship training program that prepares physicians to prevent and relieve the suffering experienced by patients with life-limiting illnesses and to maximize quality of life. These programs include instruction in the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of both patient and family throughout the course of the disease, through the dying process, and subsequent family grieving. Requires prior completion of a residency program in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, neurology, child neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, psychiatry, radiation oncology, or general surgery.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • hospice and palliative medicine - fellowship
  • palliative medicine - fellowship

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • hospice and palliative care(51.1512)
  • pain medicine - fellowship(61.0210)
  • palliative care nursing(51.3819)