Clinician Education
Integrative Palliative Care
Integrative palliative care is a whole-person approach to serious illness care, using all the tools that work.
Knowing which tools to use for specific circumstances, and how to counsel patients about them, is key.
Learn About Integrative Palliative Care
Your patient has pain? Medications can certainly help, but acupuncture, manual medicine, and mind-body tools may help too.
Your patient has anxiety? Qigong, meditation, exercise, cognitive behavioral therapy, and neurofeedback may be helpful.
PTSD? Try EMDR
Depression? Acupuncture and exercise are evidence-supported
Do you feel comfortable creating an evidence-supported, effective, practical integrative treatment plan for your palliative care patients?
Learn From An Experienced Medical Educator
Dr. Delia has been educating medical learners for more than two decades. She teaches attending physicians, residents, medical students, nurses, PAs, chaplains, social workers, and more about the integrative approach to caring for patients with serious illness and age-related decline.
Current teaching appointments:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Palliative Care Fellows
- University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Palliative Care Master's Degree Students
- University of California at Irvine, Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute Integrative & Functional Medicine Fellowship
Recorded education and individualized consulting are available.
Integrative Symptom Management Program
This comprehensive program is designed and delivered by Dr. Delia Chiaramonte and is available for you to watch at your own pace.
Caring for patients with pain and other symptoms of serious illness can be challenging. These patients are suffering, and they can be frustrating, emotional and exhausting to take care of. It can be hard to know how best to help. Medications alone are often not the best strategy.
Adding evidence-supported complementary modalities to your symptom management toolbox will reduce your frustration, make your patients happier and create a more satisfying practice.
This program will give you all that you need to start providing integrative symptom management in your practice. You can't pour from an empty cup, so attention to your wellbeing is part of the program as well. You will learn to heal your patients, and also to heal yourself.
The program includes comprehensive recorded informational sessions (no fluff, I know you're busy!), patient education information, materials to support your wellbeing, and bonus interviews.
You will leave this program with specific tools that you can use in your practice right away.