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Project Objectives

• Develop an interdisciplinary team (from various disciplines and specialties) at each university to identify the gaps and opportunities related to palliative and end-of-life care (at their university), develop a strategy to address the gaps and implement the strategy.
• Develop a network of educator opinion leaders across the country that can help develop, implement and evaluate education programs in palliative and end-of-life care.
• Support the development of consensus-based palliative and end-of-life care common competencies for undergraduate trainees in medicine and for postgraduate trainees in key clinical specialties.
• Facilitate the introduction of curriculum based on common competencies for all undergraduate and clinical postgraduate trainees at each medical school.
• Empower faculty in the various specialties to become palliative and end-of-life care mentors/role models.
• Facilitate the introduction of palliative and end-of-life care questions in licensing and certification exams.