Harvard Medical SchoolCenter for Palliative Care

Our Mission

The Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care (HMS CPC) aims to ease suffering and enhance the quality of care for patients and their families dealing with life-threatening and/or serious illness, through fostering leadership and supporting outstanding educational programs in palliative care. By educating future generations of physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals, the Center serves as a national and international resource for the best practices in palliative care education and practice.

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PAPCPractical Aspects of Palliative Care: Integrating Palliative Care into Clinical Practice (PAPC)

October 4-6, 2013

Registration now open!

Practical Aspects of Palliative Care (PAPC) is a two-and-one-half-day course designed to offer physicians, nurses, and other clinicians the information and skills needed to provide high-quality, specialist-level palliative care to patients with life-threatening illnesses in a variety of practice settings. Through plenary sessions, small breakout groups, and workshops, participants will develop a toolbox of palliative care competencies and will learn from colleagues facing similar practice challenges.

Download the 2013 course brochure


PCEP Palliative Care Education and Practice (PCEP)

November 5-12, 2013 and April 30-May 6, 2014

Applications Now Being Accepted

The Harvard Medical School program in Palliative Care Education and Practice (PCEP) offers intensive learning experiences for physician and nurse educators who wish to become expert in the clinical practice and teaching of comprehensive, interdisciplinary palliative care, as well as gain expertise in leading and managing improvements in palliative care education and practice at their own institutions.

Download the 2013-14 course brochure


PCFHI

Palliative Care for Hospitalists and Intensivists (PCFHI)

April 3-5 2014

Registration will open in early 2014

Palliative Care for Hospitalists and Intensivists (PCFHI) is an intensive two-and-one-half-day course that fills a significant gap for hospital-based specialists who seek training in palliative care, and provides these clinicians with the information and skills needed to offer high quality, specialist-level palliative care to inpatients with life-threatening illnesses. Hospitalists and intensivists will acquire a toolbox of key competencies required to deal with challenging end-of-life situations in the hospital.

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ASPNArt & Science of Palliative Nursing (ASPN)

June 12-13, 2014

Registration will open in early 2014


The Art & Science of Palliative Nursing (ASPN) course focuses on applying essential principles of palliative nursing to the management of patients with various chronic illnesses across settings. This year's sessions will highlight various underĀ­served populations, as well as symptom management, communication, and ethics.

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