Palliative Care Module
- General Learning Resources
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1. Hard Copy, Online Texts and Tutorials
- Therapeutic Guidelines: Palliative Care, Version 2, 2005. For a list of topics click here.
- International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care: Manual of Palliative Care, 2nd edition, copyright 2008 IAHPC. For the Online Manual click here.
- IAHPC List of Essential Medicines for Palliative Care click here.
- UK Association for Children’s Palliative Care: Basic Symptom Control in Paediatric Palliative Care – The Rainbow Children’s Hospice Guidelines, 7th edition, 2008. For the Online Manual click here.
- End of Life / Palliative Education Resource Centre, EPERC, Fast Facts, for article index and links to the articles click here.
- Current Learning in Palliative Care, CLIP, 15 Minute Online Tutorials, for tutorial index and links to the articles click here.
- GP Learning online topics in Palliative Care click here.
- RRMEO Palliative Care online training click here
2. Online Articles of Interest
- Multiple articles in AFP April 2006 on ‘GI Malignancies’ and an article on ‘Palliation from the Doctors Bag’ click here.
- AFP April 2007 Articles on ‘Crises and Meaning’ and ‘Adjusting to Illness and Other Major Life Events’, click here.
- BMJ online ‘Between Hope and Acceptance: the Medicalisation of Dying’ click here.
- Two articles to access from the RACGP Library are ‘Demoralisation: its phenomenology and importance’, for a pubmed abstract click here. ‘Psychospiritual and existential distress’, for a pubmed abstract click here.
- eMJA online articles on Palliative Care, for a list click here.
3. Other Information Resources
- International Association for the Study of Pain, IASP, Clinical Updates on Pain related topics click here.
- For the IAHPC Palliative Care Journal List click here.
4. Organisations in Palliative Care with multiple further information links:
- Palliative Care Australia click here.
- CareSearch Palliative Care Network click here.
- Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education click here.
- Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine click here.
- Australasian Chapter of Palliative Medicine click here.
- Medical Oncology Group of Australia click here.
- Department of Health and Ageing click here.
- International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care click here.
- European Association for Palliative Care click here.
- Help the Hospices click here.
- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine click
here.
5. Podcasts
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a. Podcasts from Palliative Care Victoria click here
