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Guiding Principles

• Collaborative interdisciplinary care is required for best practices in palliative and end of life care.
• The project will be national in scope but will remain sensitive and responsive to local needs, challenges and opportunities.
• All phases of the project will be based on consensus and guided by experts in care provision, education, curriculum reform and project management.
• Strategies will be multi-level, i.e. including stakeholders from the bottom up and from the top down.
• Effective programs already in existence will be identified and promoted as models for adoption.
• Competencies will be consensus-based and specialty-specific.
• The project will aim to ensure long-term sustainability through palliative and end-of-life care education capacity and expertise development.
• The norms of the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, including inclusion of culturally sensitive care and care of aboriginal peoples will form the basis of curriculum content.
• The project will foster best practices in palliative and end-of-life care in institutions and in the community.
• The model and processes that are developed can serve as models for incorporating palliative and end-of-life care competencies in the training of other disciplines.
• Accountability and transparency will be promoted through ongoing communication, evaluation and quality control.