Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC)
"A multi-disciplinary professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence in death education, bereavement counseling, and care of the dying."
Educating Future Physicians in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (EFPPEC)
"Educating Future Physicians in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (EFPPEC) intends to bring palliative and end-of-life care education to all undergraduate medical students and clinical postgraduate trainees at Canada's seventeen Medical Schools. The project is a joint initiative of The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada and the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association and is funded by Health Canada."
EPEC.NET - Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care
"EPEC is supported by a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It is designed to educate all physicians on the essential clinical competencies required to provide quality end-of-life care. EPEC.net comprises several complementary components."
End of Life Physician Education Resource Center (EPERC)
"The End of Life Physician Education Resource Center (EPERC) is a central repository for educational materials and information about end of life (EOL) issues. The purpose of EPERC is to assist physician educators and others in locating high-quality, peer-reviewed training materials."
George Washington University - End-of-Life Care Programs
"The End-of-Life Care Programs will prepare you to enter or advance in the interdisciplinary, challenging, and rewarding field of end-of-life care"
Grant MacEwan Community College Palliative Care Program
"Our research-based program, instructed by faculty who are leaders in the field, offers a flexible distance-learning environment (no classroom attendance)."
Harvard Medical School Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice
"The Harvard Medical School Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice offers intensive learning experiences for physician and nurse-educators who wish to become expert in the clinical practice and teaching of comprehensive, interdisciplinary palliative care, as well as to gain expertise in leading and managing improvements in palliative care education and practice at their own institutions."
Hospice Education Institute
"The Hospice Education Institute serves a wide range of individuals and organizations interested in improving and expanding hospice and palliative care throughout the United States and around the world. The Institute works to inform . . . to educate . . . and to support . . . people seeking or providing care for the dying and the bereaved, or themselves coping with far advanced illness, or with loss."
Ian Anderson Program
"Established with a $1 million donation to the University of Toronto from Mrs. Margaret Anderson in memory of her husband, the Ian Anderson Continuing Education Program in End-of-Life Care will educate 10,000 primary care physicians and specialists across Canada over a five-year period to deal with issues surrounding death and dying. It will also hold conferences relevant to dying in critical sectors including healthcare institutions and educators, media and government."
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Pain and Palliative Care (PPC) Service clinical practice and research training
"The Pain and Palliative Care (PPC) Service of the Department of Medicine offers a one- and two-year program of clinical practice and research training"
National Center for Death Education (NCDE)
"The National Center for Death Education (NCDE) is an educational center dedicated to promoting knowledge and understanding in the field of Thanatology."
North Cumbria Palliative Care online educational resource for health care professionals
"Welcome to the North Cumbria Palliative Care, an online palliative care educational and information resource for primary care teams, developed by palliative care health professionals in North Cumbria, UK."
Oxford University Press- Palliative Medicine Texts Site
Oxford University Press has a very impressive selection of texts related to end-of-life care. An excellent resource!
Palliative Care Educational Resource Team (PERT) Program
"PERT is a comprehensive educational program designed to improve end-of-life care in long-term care facilities. Funded by the National Cancer Institute (grant R25 CA82563), a division of the National Institutes of Health, and supported by Swedish Medical Center, the PERT Program gives participants end-of-life information, skills, resources, and real-life solutions to add to their expertise in long-term care."
Pallium
"PALLIUM is a health human resource project to significantly improve access to education and professional development in palliative care for Canadian health care professionals and citizen-consumers, particularly in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and North West Territories"
San Diego Hospice Center for Palliative Studies
University of Washington Center for Palliative Care Education
"The Center for Palliative Care Education is an educational resource center and training program. Our mission is to improve palliative care for people with HIV/AIDS by increasing the knowledge, skills, and comfort level of clinicians to provide this care."
ACP-ASIM End-of-Life Care Patient Education Project
University of Alberta Division of Palliative Care Medicine
Cardiff University - Paediatric Palliative Care
McMaster University Division of Palliative Care
Queen's University Palliative Care Medicine Program
UBC Division of Palliative Care