Katherine Seachrist
I went into residency with this desire to take care of families, and I found palliative medicine as this really wonderful space to be able to connect with patients and their families.
Julia Provchy
They're very vulnerable, and I think it's just a very, very special experience to be able to help them when they have loved ones that are experiencing the dying process.
Justin Brooten
Taking the challenge of the medicine and combining that with the person, the family, and trying to help them navigate some really difficult situations.
Tyler McQueen
And I found a great sense of fulfillment in being that support for them during one of their times of greatest need.
Katherine Seachrist
Looking at a fellowship program, I really wanted to be prepared for working in any area in hospice and palliative medicine.
Julia Provchy
Some programs were very hospice-heavy or very palliative-heavy, and this program specifically gave me an ability to pursue my interest in all of those as I try to decide where I want to go in the future.
David Nguyen
I also love the different variety of rotations that we have access to, whether that's oncology, pain management, infectious diseases, pediatrics. There are so many patients that we can see and learn from within the local community.
Katherine Seachrist
That you get to work in multiple different inpatient hospice units, that you get to work in inpatient consults at different facilities, and then, whenever I came here and met the people, those were the things that made me decide to come here for fellowship.
Justin Brooten
The people that we have on faculty are very passionate about what they're doing. They've all got different skill sets. They all have different things they bring to the table and how they approach things, how they communicate.
David Nguyen
One of the great things about this program is the family-friendly environment of the attendings, faculty members, preceptors, who are very welcoming and eager to teach.
Julia Provchy
I really felt like, when I was in my interview process, that this was really a family instead of just a regular program. So I thought I'd fit in really well and be supported.
Tyler McQueen
The sense of community, community within our section, community amongst the different departments within the greater hospital community.
Julia Provchy
And I also really appreciate that there's a strong mentor program to help me as I try to discover which parts of those fit best with me.
Ben Pare
And I also noted that a lot of the faculty members stay around at Wake. People that trained here, that went to medical school here, tend to stay, and I feel like that says a lot about a program that has that ability to hold on to the people that train here and stay here. So I really love the people. I love my interview, and I'm really excited to continue here.
Rebecca L. Omlor
I've done all my training at Wake Forest. I started here in 2009 with medical school and fell in love with the people here. I really felt like I was at home. I felt like I had mentors who had my back no matter what, and they really became my work family very early on. And wanting to be able to continue to work with the people that have always been my support and my cheerleaders through my entire career was very important to me.
Justin Brooten
The other thing that I really appreciated is there's a research emphasis, but it's not just research for the sake of research. It's about how do we answer questions, and how do we find the right answers for questions, and how do we solve problems. It's not just about learning how to do the job and the mechanics of being a palliative physician. It's about how do we change the way we work with other doctors and how do we impact other fields of medicine.
Katherine Seachrist
My background is in internal medicine and pediatrics, and I hope to be able to practice a little bit of pediatric palliative medicine in the future. And the leadership has been really flexible in helping me figure out experiences that would be helpful during my fellowship.
Tyler McQueen
We love Winston-Salem. My wife and I chose to live downtown. We live in an apartment. We really value being able to walk places, walking to go pick up dinner, walking to the park, walking to the Y to exercise.
Julia Provchy
So Winston-Salem is unique in that it has a lot of historic elements as well as the fact that it's got a lot of up-and-coming hipster-type things in the city.
Katherine Seachrist
My husband and I have really enjoyed checking out some of the local restaurants and breweries, and we've also had the opportunity to go ziplining not far from Winston-Salem.
Justin Brooten
We would love to have you at Wake Forest, where we don't just want to do medicine well and palliative medicine well, but we want to do life well. And we would love to have you with us.