Background To improve the level of awareness in palliative care concepts, the new
curriculum at the University of Vienna includes sixteen hours of palliative care education …

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 Although statements on the competencies required from physicians working
within palliative care exist, these requirements have not been described within different …

Background: To date there has been a paucity of research examining whether a course in
palliative care influences the clinical work. Therefore a half-day course was started for …

Summary The Health Service Executive (HSE) Palliative Care Programme Briefing
Document (2012) identified the development of a Palliative Care Competence Framework …

Purpose Competence-based education in health and social care has been promoted
through the Tuning Process in Europe. This papers reports on the process of developing a …

Background: Although the provision of palliative care (PC) is fundamental to the role of the
physician, little research has assessed the competence of trainee and experienced …

Abstract Background Within Germany, there is a heterogeneous range of training and
continuing education in palliative care for different professional groups. The German Society …

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 …

Context Central to appropriate palliative care management in hospital settings is ensuring
an adequately trained workforce. In order to achieve optimum palliative care delivery, it is …