Background As the global population ages, palliative care is ever more essential to provide
care for patients with incurable chronic conditions. However, in many countries, doctors are …

Background Palliative care (PC) is a relatively new field in Brazil, but this knowledge is of
great importance in medical practice. Objective To evaluate the degree of confidence among …

Purpose Despite recommendations that palliative care education should be in all health
professional programmes, such education is ad-hoc and variable. To reduce variability, the …

Background Medical students have traditionally received little education in palliative care.
However, in 1999, as part of a revised medical curriculum, Year 4 undergraduates at …

Introduction Including palliative care (PC) in overloaded medical curricula is a challenge,
especially where there is a lack of PC specialists. We hypothesised that non-specialised …

Prompted by directives from the GMC,'care of the dying'is identified as 'core curricula'for
undergraduate medical education. However, there are many technical and interpersonal …

Background With increased demand for palliative care (PC), the World Health Organisation
(WHO) have called for PC teaching to be made routine. However, medical students report …

Background The need for undergraduate medical education in palliative care is widely
recognised. An optional student-selected module 'Fundamentals of Palliative Medicine'was …

Background: Since 2013 medical faculties in Germany have to teach and assess palliative
care issues. Objective: Evaluation of a one-week intensive seminar in palliative care with …

Background International organisations recommend the inclusion of palliative care
undergraduate education as a way to meet increasing demand; the long-term effects …