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Welcome to the EFPPEC Website

The Educating Future Physicians in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (EFPPEC) Project officially completed its mandate March 31, 2008.

This website will remain active for one year following that date. All EFPPEC resources will be found in the Palliative Learning Commons www.peolc-sp.ca in the future.

Facilitating Advance Care Planning: An Interprofessional Education Program

We are pleased to announce the completion of the Advance Care Planning Curriculum Material and Teacher’s Guide. The module is an interprofessional education module intended for formal caregivers and undergraduate and postgraduate students in the health professionals. It has been produced in an interprofessional approach for an audience which includes health care professionals such as physicians, nurses, social workers, spiritual advisors, and trained volunteers for palliative care services. Click here to download a copy of the Curriculum Materials.

The Teacher’s Guide has been developed to accompany the Curriculum Materials. This guide provides suggestions for effective teaching as well as teaching materials such as cases. Click here to download a copy of the Teacher’s Guide.

We are printing a limited number of hard copies. If you are interested in receiving one by mail, please contact Jennifer Kavanagh at jkavanag@scohs.on.ca or by phone at (613) 241-3663 ext: 231 and we will be happy to send you a copy. Health Canada will be having both documents translated to French. Once complete, they too will be posted to the website.

EFPPEC Symposium III : Making Change Happen

EFPPEC's third annual symposium was a great success! Held in partnership with the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians, we had an attendance rate of approximately 120 participants. Our largest symposium to date! Thank you to everyone who participated in this event.

With this year's Symposium, our goal was to create an occasion for an extensive group of educators from a range of professions to come together and to enhance interprofessional and discipline-specific networking. Furthermore, we had hoped to engage discussions concerning options for sustainability of educating future professionals in palliative and end-of-life care.

Thank you to the presenters of the two morning workshops. To view the PowerPoint presentations, please click on the titles below.

Interprofessional Education: The Teaching of Psychosocial Issues and suffering in PEOLC Education.
Mary Lou Kelley, Pippa Hall, Kathy Kortes-Miller, Maryse Bouvette

Distributed Learning
Anita Singh, Chi-Ming Chow, Tamara Bahr

Thank you to our EFPPEC Local Teams who participated in the Storefront Displays. Over the years the EFPPEC Local Teams have worked hard to advance palliative and end of life care education at your respective universities. This opportunity allowed all those present to learn of your local team's experiences and accomplishments.

Click here to download a copy of the Symposium Evaluation Report and the Executive Summary of the Proceedings.

Undergraduate Curriculum for Medical Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care