Background: Palliative care and end of life care is being emphasized ever more in everyday
practice of medicine. Many of the specialty boards either recommend or require education in …

Background Most surgical training programs have no curriculum to teach palliative care.
Programs designed for nonsurgical specialties often do not meet the unique needs of …

Though incorporating palliative care principles with standard medical and surgical care has
been associated with multiple benefits, surgical training devotes far less time to developing …

OBJECTIVE To describe how and when surgery residents provided primary palliative care
and engaged specialty palliative care services. DESIGN Phase I consisted of a previously …

Introduction There is increasing recognition that Surgical Palliative Care is an essential
component of the holistic care of surgical patients and involves more than end-of-life care in …

Background: Contemporary medicine has begun to reemphasize the importance of palliative
and end-of-life-care. This shift requires a commensurate change in physician education to …

Despite interest in end-of-life educational efforts, attitudinal barriers still thwart the
integration of palliative care into medical education. The authors present their experience …

The medical management of end-of-life symptoms, and the psychosocial care of the dying
and their families have not been a specific part of the curriculum for undergraduate medical …

BACKGROUND: The American Board of Surgery has emphasized that palliative care
education should be included in surgical training. The few formal curricula for teaching …

Abstract Purpose: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requires that
internal medicine (IM) core curricula include end-of-life care and pain management …