Research has demonstrated that patients facing serious, life-limiting illnesses and their
families benefit from receiving palliative care. Increasingly, however, specialty palliative care …

Speech and language therapists (SLTs) are specialists in the management of
communication and swallowing disorders (dysphagia), however few are members of acute …

A faculty development course was offered at the Medical College of Wisconsin to bolster
existing medical student and housestaff training opportunities in palliative medicine. An 8 …

Background: There has been an increasing need to address end of life (EOL) care and
palliative care in an era when measures to extend life for terminal illnesses are often …

The ability to provide primary palliative care is a skill set that nurse practitioners should
acquire, develop, and refine. The relief of suffering—physical, emotional, and spiritual …

BACKGROUND: The number of patients with cancer and other life-limiting diseases
continues to increase. The WHO estimate that by 2050 there will be 24 million new cancer …

BACKGROUND: Palliative care is recognized as integral to the practice of oncology, yet
many oncologists report inadequate training in critical palliative care domains, such as …

End-of-life and palliative care, while not new, have become focal issues in the health arena.
The distinction between the two is often blurred. A number of initiatives have been used to …

Background: Medical schools require time for end-of-life topic. However, there is very little
medical literature that directly addresses how medical students and residents are to behave …

Objective: LCME has recently required that all graduating medical students learn about end-
of-life care. This program describes the design and integration into an existing geriatrics …