Family medicine
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Hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) is one of three Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education accredited clinical subspecialties available to family medicine graduates for fellowship training. Despite this, training is not currently a curriculum requirement. We have pioneered a required 4-week palliative medicine rotation into the curriculum. ⋯ Formal HPM training should be a required component in residency education and considerations should be given to the 4-week format. This rotation provides a model that can be implemented in other residency programs nationally. Implementation of this rotation may help close the enormous gap of patients not receiving quality EOL care.