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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.

Announcements

• The EFPPEC Team is pleased to announce the completion of the Undergraduate Medical Education Curriculum. After a long development process of national consensus building surveys and document revisions, including a final review by the Undergraduate Committee of the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians, the curriculum is complete and available for distribution. Click here to view an electronic copy of the curriculum. If you would like to request a printed copy, please contact Jennifer Kavanagh at jkavanag@scohs.on.ca.
  
  

Past Events

• The project team presented the following workshop at the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Conference in Toronto and the 17th Annual Provincial Hospice and Palliative Care Conference in Manitoba - Advance Care Planning: An Interprofessional Learning Module. Click here to download a copy of the presentation. EFPPEC also had an exhibit at each of these conferences. In addition, the Project Team presented a workshop on E-Learning in partnership with Michael Aherne, Pallium at the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Conference in Toronto and had a poster session on the Learning Commons at the same conference.
• We would like to thank Dr. Cori Schroder and Dr. Joshua Shadd for their EFPPEC Video Conference held Wednesday March 14, 2007 from 14:30 to 16:00 ET. Dr. Cori Schroder and Dr. Joshua Shadd presented “Collaboration in Action – EFPPEC at Queen’s University”. If you missed this video conference, click here for a copy of the PowerPoint presentation.
  
  
• We would like to thank Dr. Ivan Silver for his time and effort in put together his presentation for the EFPPEC Video Conference titled: “Communities of Practice in Education: What they are, how they work and what they can do.” If you missed this video conference, click here for a copy of the PowerPoint presentation.
  
  
• The 16th International Congress on Care of the Terminally Ill held at the Palais des Congrès in Montréal, September 26th – 29th, 2006. The EFPPEC workshop was well attended and sparked the interest of those present. To view a copy of the presentation Click Here.
  
  
• The 16th Annual Provincial Hospice Palliative Care Conference at the Winnipeg Convention Centre, September 14th – 15th, 2006. Thanks to D. Paul Daeninck and Louise Hanvey for their workshop on 'Implementing Undergraduate and Postgraduate Curriculum in Palliative and End-of-Life Care. To view a copy of the presentation Click Here.