It is important to support general practitioners (GPs) in maintaining and developing their
palliative care skills as most of the final year of a patient's life is spent at home under the …

The need for improved palliative care education has been well documented [1–5]. Current
information confirms that physicians and nurses have insufficient training in topics related to …

The demand for palliative services is outpacing the availability of specialist palliative care
clinicians. One strategy to fill this gap is to improve “primary palliative care” skills and …

BACKGROUND: General practitioners (GPs) have a central role in palliative care, yet
research continues to reveal room for improvement in symptom control at home. There is a …

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 …

A literature review confirms a need for improved medical education on death, dying, terminal
illness, and bereavement, and so palliative care, from 1900 until the present time in the UK …

The authors conducted a nine-item mail questionnaire of the 16 Canadian family medicine
teaching programme directors to determine the accessibility and operation of palliative care …

With the progress of modern medicine, many previously lethal diseases now have become
chronic conditions, as pointed out by Macleod [1]. During the prolonged course of illness …

Context: General practitioners (GPs) and generalist hospital doctors provide the majority of
palliative and terminal care in the UK. Studies have revealed problems with symptom control …

As the need for palliative care increases, palliative care is emerging as a field of medical
care in its own right. At the same time there are many aspects of palliative care that are …