[UPBEAT MUSIC] MELISSA TEPLY: UNMC is what you want out of an academic medical center. We really have incredible clinicians that are here who bring that experiential knowledge and wisdom to be able to bring that to learners. That you're getting the cutting-edge research, but you're also getting that day-to-day practical wisdom in your education. 

ALFRED FISHER: Our faculty are very young and very dedicated to education. The fellows are really critically important. We're here to educate and train the next generation of physicians. 

SHELBY HOPP: My goals for fellows in our program are really that they're expert clinicians, that they're leaders, and that they're really great communicators. So those are the big things that we focus on developing throughout a very fast one-year fellowship. 

ALFRED FISHER: That's one of the things that I really love about the job, is the fact that we have faculty who are incredibly dedicated to education, to patient care, and also to each other. 

ALEX GEORGIEV: I get to interact with the inpatient team, outpatient clinic, and I also get hospice home experiences. So I get the full range of palliative care experience within this program. 

ALFRED FISHER: We also have a variety of rotations like pain medicine, long-term care that are ways that you can complement your educational experiences in palliative medicine and build skills in other areas. 

SHELBY HOPP: We get to be a smaller program, but at a larger institution with a large catchment area. So we're seeing anything you can think of. We see it here at UNMC. So we get that breadth of patient care. But you get it with faculty who really care about you and know your name and are going to know you as an individual. 

MELISSA TEPLY: Omaha's the best. It's just like a hidden gem. It's big enough to be interesting, but small enough to feel like you can navigate it. We have awesome restaurants, we have amazing parks. It is a great place to have a family. It's also interesting enough to be a young single person here. 

SHELBY HOPP: It has the benefits of a big city but still feels like a small town. So you feel known, you feel like you can grow here, that you can keep learning, and that there's endless opportunities to create whatever it is that you're hoping to do with your career. 

ALEX GEORGIEV: I can pick and choose what rotations I would want in the future, whether it's with hospice or inpatient or outpatient care. And just the diversity in the workload in general makes me have a better experience just because I get to see so much diverse cases. 

MELISSA TEPLY: My greatest goal, whether or not they're aware of this or not, for them to go out and be extraordinary clinicians, extraordinary teachers, and extraordinary leaders. 

SHELBY HOPP: All in all, we want them to be exactly the kind of doctor that they've always wanted to be. I want them to be caring and compassionate and find that joy in medicine to want to do this and want to do it for a long time. 

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