Despite the benefits and increased clinical application of primary palliative care principles
within surgery, palliative care education among surgical trainees remains varied and poorly …

Though incorporating palliative care principles with standard medical and surgical care has
been associated with multiple benefits, surgical training devotes far less time to developing …

Introduction There is increasing recognition that Surgical Palliative Care is an essential
component of the holistic care of surgical patients and involves more than end-of-life care in …

OBJECTIVE To describe how and when surgery residents provided primary palliative care
and engaged specialty palliative care services. DESIGN Phase I consisted of a previously …

Palliative care and the relief of suffering have always been at the heart of surgical practice.
Many of the most well-known operations, ranging from the Billroth and Whipple procedures …

To address the need for increased exposure to the essential components of Palliative Care
in our residency, we created a 4 week rotation in Surgical Palliative Care for all of our …

Background Most surgical training programs have no curriculum to teach palliative care.
Programs designed for nonsurgical specialties often do not meet the unique needs of …

The Principles Guiding Care at the End of Life (opposite page) and the expanded Principles
of Palliative Care proposed by the Surgical Palliative Care Task Force exemplify all aspects …

We describe our institutional approach to incorporating surgical palliative care education
into the Undergraduate Medical Education, Graduate Medical Education and Continuing …

Background A shortage of palliative care (PC) sub-specialists highlights the need for quality
PC provided by treating surgeons, although no established curriculum exists to teach …