updated: 26 February 2008
Taskforce on Education for Physicians
The EAPC Board considers the Education about palliative medicine at University of utmost importance for the future of palliative care, and decided to carry out a survey on the state of the art of education for physicians in Europe.
EAPC Taskforceon medical education - Report 2007
Curriculum in Palliative Care for Undergraduate Medical Education Recommendations of the European Association of Palliative Care (EAPC)
Report of the EAPC Task Force on Medical Education
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Members:
Chair Dr Frank ELSNER (Germany)
Dr Carlos CENTENO(Spain)
Dr Franco DE CONNO(Italy)
Dr Marilene FILBET (France) Past President
Pr John ELLERSHAW (UK)
Dr Steffen EYCHMULLER(Switzerland)
Pr Stein KAASA(Norway)
Mr. Philip LARKIN (Ireland)
Meetings:
- 2002 questionnaire
- 2003
April - The Hague
November - Aachen
- 2004
March - Lyon
June - Stresa
- 2005
March -Vevey
April - Aachen
- 2006
March - Paris
June - Venice
Finances:
- Travel expenses (10000 euros) are paid by Accompagner local association in Lyon
- Rooms and logistics by the university Claude Bernard Lyon UCBL
Outcomes achieving:
- The pregraduate recommendations
- First draft 2005
- Sent to the advisory board 2006, review process
- Document approved but slight changes are made:New document 2007
- Approved by the EAPC board in January 2007
- Launch on the EAPC web site and Budapest congress in June 2007
Advisory Board:
Lukas Radbruch (Germany)
Kiriaki Mistakidou (Greece)
Ilora Finlay (UK)
Pascual Antonio (Spain)
Nabal Maria (Spain)
Holli Kaija (Finland)
Bosnjak Snezana (Serbia)
Wee Bee (UK)
Zbigniew Zylicz (Poland)
Benoit Burucoa (France)
Daniele Leboul (France)
Karen Forbes (UK)
Athina Vadalouka (Greece)
The review process:
- The document was sent with a review form to
- the experts answering to the first questionnaire
- the presidents of the board of the collective members association
- All respondents will become members of the advisory board with their agreement.
- Results analysis show a great interest to the documents
- Changes to the final document will be made based on their feedback.
In preparation:
- Post-graduate recommendations
- The first draft is done
- Discussion about the review process for the next TF meeting
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