Context The lack of palliative medicine (PM) education has been identified as a barrier to the
development of the discipline. A number of international institutions have called for its …

Since the beginning of the 1970s, in most developed countries and at the beginning of the
21st century in Ukraine as well, the issue of developing palliative and hospice care has …

Background: The five Nordic Associations for palliative medicine (PM) have since 2003
organized a common specialist course for six weeks in two years. Aim: To describe the …

e20749 Beginning of the hospice care in Poland is associated with democratic opposition in
the eighties of the XX century and social movement Solidarity. In 1978, C. Saunders visited …

Background In 2009, palliative medicine became an integrated and compulsory part of
undergraduate training in Germany by legislation. After a transitional period, all medical …

Background Education in palliative medicine (PM) at medical schools reveals wide variation
despite the increasing importance of palliative care. Many universities present poor …

A comprehensive analysis of today's situation of palliative care in Europe is provided,
including previously unidentified statistics and standardised profiles of 16 European …

Background In 2007, a first survey on undergraduate palliative care teaching in Switzerland
has revealed major heterogeneity of palliative care content, allocation of hours and …

Hospice/palliative care, as the World Health Organization has recognized, is the active, total
care of patients whose disease no longer responds to curative treatment, and for whom the …

Alone among the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, a groundswell towards hospices
began in Poland in 1972, while the country was still under communism domination. Societal …