Course Information
Palliative Care (CPD) is a comprehensive 5-day course designed for healthcare professionals, both palliative care specialists and also those who are generalists in palliative care, i.e. health practitioners such as GPs, geriatricians and other hospital clinicians, as well as public health and policy specialists whose work deals with palliative care either directly or indirectly.
The programme not only covers palliative care practice and policies from both a local and global perspective, but also covers primary care research and clinical studies.
In more detail...
This course provides an innovative approach to understanding palliative care, and insight into the current and future palliative care research agenda. It explores the value of different research methods, and identifies the opportunities and challenges in carrying out research with patients, carers and professionals in this sensitive area. The course is dynamic and interactive, and presents the work and practice of many countries giving an wider perspective of palliative care within Europe and throughout the rest of the world.
Learning outcomes
The course can provide attendees with the necessary knowledge for assessing or reassessing current palliative care practice, benchmarking with international standards, and vital understanding of different palliative approaches to various illnesses and prognoses.
The course will also provide the opportunity to meet and network with several members of the International Primary Palliative Care Research Group.
More information: www.uq.edu.au/primarypallcare/
