This article reviews a palliative care educational program for community physicians
developed by the University of Ottawa Institute of Palliative Care in cooperation with the …

Method The Program. Since 1994, the University of Ottawa Institute of Palliative Care has
been given a mandate through the Ontario Ministry of Health's educational initiatives to …

Abstract♦ Palliative care has been identified by the Canadian province of Ontario's Ministry
of Health as having fundamental developmental deficiencies. In response to these …

The purpose of this study was to determine continuing education needs in the area of
palliative care, as defined by family practice physicians. The methodology consisted of an …

Community-based care is an appropriate goal of palliative care (1-5). When the earlier
stages of terminal disease are included, 90% of all palliative care is received in the home …

Recent calls for increased palliative care education of physicians and a need to improve the
effectiveness of palliative care delivery in rural areas are the stimuli for this study. The needs …

The article describes the development of the postgraduate palliative medicine programs at
the University of Cape Town (UCT) through collaboration with the Palliative Medicine …

Palliative medicine is an emerging world-wide discipline. This article describes efforts at the
Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) to develop programs to enhance palliative medicine …

The prevalence of diseases such as cancer and AIDS is expected to increase in the 21st
century. In 1997 more than 10 million people in the world were expected to develop a …

To obtain the information necessary for coordinated regional program development, we
examined (a) the multidisciplinary viewpoint of palliative care service provision and (b) the …