Palliative Care Module


  • General Learning Resources
  • 1. Hard Copy, Online Texts and Tutorials 

    1. Therapeutic Guidelines: Palliative Care, Version 2, 2005. For a list of topics click here.
    2. International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care: Manual of Palliative Care, 2nd edition, copyright 2008 IAHPC. For the Online Manual click here.
    3. IAHPC List of Essential Medicines for Palliative Care click here.
    4. 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.
    5. End of Life / Palliative Education Resource Centre, EPERC, Fast Facts, for article index and links to the articles click here.
    6. Current Learning in Palliative Care, CLIP, 15 Minute Online Tutorials, for tutorial index and links to the articles click here.
    7. GP Learning online topics in Palliative Care click here.

    8. RRMEO Palliative Care online training click here

     

    2. Online Articles of Interest

     

    1. Multiple articles in AFP April 2006 on ‘GI Malignancies’ and an article on ‘Palliation from the Doctors Bag’ click here.
    2. AFP April 2007 Articles on ‘Crises and Meaning’ and ‘Adjusting to Illness and Other Major Life Events’, click here.
    3. BMJ online ‘Between Hope and Acceptance: the Medicalisation of Dying’ click here.
    4. 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.
    5. eMJA online articles on Palliative Care, for a list click here.

     

    3. Other Information Resources

    1. International Association for the Study of Pain, IASP, Clinical Updates on Pain related topics click here.
    2. For the IAHPC Palliative Care Journal List click here.

     

    4. Organisations in Palliative Care with multiple further information links: 

    1. Palliative Care Australia click here.
    2. CareSearch Palliative Care Network click here.
    3. Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education click here.
    4. Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine click here.
    5. Australasian Chapter of Palliative Medicine click here.
    6. Medical Oncology Group of Australia click here.
    7. Department of Health and Ageing click here.
    8. International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care click here.
    9. European Association for Palliative Care click here.
    10. Help the Hospices click here.
    11. American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine click here.

    5. Podcasts

  • a. Podcasts from Palliative Care Victoria click here