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Canadian Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Competency Framework

(August 2021) Congratulations to the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer on release of a Canadian Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Competency Framework. Included are palliative care competencies for nurses, general physicians, social workers, personal support workers who are currently in practice, and volunteers. In their release, CPAC acknowledged CSPCP as a major contributor to framework. CSPCP Board members assisted throughout the process and helped refine the physician competency section to align as closely as possible with the existing national palliative competencies used by many of Canadian medical schools: EFPPEC competencies for undergrad medical education, and PACE competencies for postgrad.

CSPCP Study: Palliative care clinical rotations

April 15, 2020 – Although most Canadian medical schools offer clinical rotations in palliative care, only a minority of trainees at the undergrad & postgrad levels completed such a rotation during their training (2008-2018). Without dedicated clinical exposure to palliative care, many physicians may enter practice without vital palliative care competencies.

Publication in CMAJ Open: http://cmajopen.ca/content/8/2/E257.full