Building Resilient Clinicians: Lessons From Palliative Care Training for the Heart Failure Community

How lessons learned from palliative care can inspire heart failure programs to make important changes for the next generation of specialists.

An article published in Circulation: Heart Failure discusses how advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology (AHFTC) fellowship programs are facing recruitment challenges due to the emotional demands of caring for advanced heart failure patients, risking workforce shortages and burnout among current clinicians. To account for this, the authors recommend AHFTC programs adopt strategies from palliative care, including normalizing mental health support, incorporating narrative medicine and spiritual care education, fostering team-based emotional sharing, and more.

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