Background: The ability of health care clinicians to offer a palliative approach to care to their
patients with progressive, life-limiting illness has become critical as demand for these …

Background: Palliative care (PC) training initiatives have proliferated to assist generalist
health care providers (HCPs) develop skills for applying an early PC approach. To date …

This article presents a rapid review of the published literature and available resources for
educating Canadian physicians to provide palliative and end-of-life care. Several key …

Purpose: In 1997, a biweekly, 18-month Palliative Care Seminar Series was started at Mount
Sinai School of Medicine as a way to explore participants' beliefs about palliative care and to …

Background: Palliative care is part of comprehensive family practice; however, many
physicians do not feel confident in the biomedical and psychosocial realms. Although …

Background: End-of-life care is challenging on health professionals' mental and emotional
state. Palliative care education can support health professional students' transition, helping …

Background: Despite the world-wide growth of specialist palliative care services, the bulk of
care and decision making at the end of life are delivered in general hospital, primary care …

Background Family caregivers' empowerment can assume strategic importance in palliative
care. Healthcare professionals and volunteers have been showing significant gaps in this …

Palliative care practice requires excellent communication between the patient, family, and
clinical team. Experts in the field have proposed a variety of communication interventions …

Background Palliative care education (PCE) is an important public health approach to
palliative care and is crucial to improving its utilisation. The present study aims to develop a …