Evaluating Interprofessional Palliative Care Education initiatives for health care professionals in Canada

Palliative care is an approach that aims to reduce suffering and improve the quality of life for people who are living with life-limiting illness. Almost all of the nearly 300,000 people who die in Canada each year could benefit from palliative care. There is a solid economic and social case for investing in palliative care across Canada. However, the implementation of palliative care is inconsistent, fragmented, and healthcare professionals often lack skills and confidence in providing this care.9 One of the priorities of the Framework on Palliative Care in Canada (2018) is to enhance palliative care education and training for health care providers. Pallium Canada’s innovative training programs contribute to this priority. Pallium Canada values ongoing quality improvement, research and development, stewardship of resources and accountability, and sees evaluation-derived data and insights as critical to inform its work. The evaluation studies proposed will enable Pallium Canada to ensure the organization is addressing Canada’s needs for palliative care efficiently and effectively, optimizing the substantial public investments already made in Canada’s healthcare systems. Improvements in the provision of palliative care across the healthcare systems could lead to sustained cost savings of tens of millions of TOBECONT’.

Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher Klinger;Lynn Meadows

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Partner:

Pallium Canada

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

McMaster University

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