Category Archives: EDUCATION & TRAINING

Strictly Come Dying: Will it be a fast dance or a slow waltz?

Posted on April 23, 2019 by

Only 30 days to #EAPC2019 … The 16th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC): ‘Global Palliative Care – Shaping the future’ will explore how palliative care fits with the current global health and identify areas where … Continue reading →

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Futurism in Palliative: An overview of the Palliative Care, Architecture and Design Symposium (PADS 2018)

Posted on February 25, 2019 by

The inaugural Palliative Care, Architecture and Design Symposium held in Liverpool, UK, in November 2018, enabled delegates to explore how architecture, design and technology can improve quality of life for people with palliative care needs. Christian Goodwin, Fulbright Scholar, US-UK Fulbright … Continue reading →

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Lessons learnt and best practices in palliative care for nursing homes: PACE Steps to Success programme

Posted on February 4, 2019 by

Professor Sheila Payne, Professor Katherine Froggatt and Danni Collingridge Moore from the International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, UK, describe their work in developing a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), which demonstrates how to implement the PACE … Continue reading →

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2018 saw a major initiative in India to make palliative care accessible to everyone

Posted on January 16, 2019 by

Dr Jenifer Jeba S is a Professor (Palliative Medicine) at the Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, India. Here, she explains how palliative care and family medicine physicians in India have come together to meet the huge unmet palliative care need for people … Continue reading →

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Behind the lines: Teaching palliative care in Gaza

Posted on December 17, 2018 by

Dr Jane Bates, Dr Mhoira Leng and Dr Tony Jefferis describe their palliative care teaching visit at the Islamic University of Gaza. A group of 130 boisterous medical students greeted us in a slightly cramped classroom: girls on the left, boys on … Continue reading →

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Preparing new UK doctors to deal with death and dying – a simulation-based approach

Posted on October 24, 2018 by

Dr Laura Jones is a junior doctor who previously worked as a teaching fellow at South Tyneside District Hospital in the UK. Earlier poor feedback on didactic teaching methods for final year medical students led Laura to develop her own three-day … Continue reading →

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When 999 gets called at the end of life – from life to death

Posted on September 10, 2018 by

In this backgrounder to a longer article published in the June issue of the European Journal of Palliative Care, Richard Smith, a paramedic with the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, UK, explains how collaborative initiatives between two UK … Continue reading →

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