Education
See What's New for recent changes/additions to education offerings.
The Centre serves as a resource for best practice in palliative care education and seeks to build workforce capacity for providing a palliative approach in various health care settings.
CPCRE has a state-wide role in developing, providing, promoting and supporting palliative care education. In collaboration with other education providers, clinical services, Divisions of General Practice and Aged Care organisations, the Centre develops evidence based educational resources and provides a range of educational activities to enhance palliative care services in Queensland.
The Centre compiles and distributes an annual calendar of educational activities offered by Queensland Health organisations, non government organisations, and education providers for Queensland health care professionals.
Palliative Care Education Calendar 2009 (print version - 150kb pdf)
Online Palliative Care Education Calendar
In addition, the Centre is an endorsed education provider with the Royal Australian College of General Practice (RACGP) and the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM).
CPCRE's Education Program
The Centre's educational focus is on:
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working with aged care providers and specialist palliative care services to optimise end of life care in the aged care sector
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providing updates in palliative care for primary care and specialist providers in palliative care
- working with Indigenous health providers and communities to improve their access to and the quality of palliative care services
The Centre's education offerings fall into the following areas:
The Centre’s quarterly newsletter Centre On-Line contains information about forthcoming education programs and conferences, new research and service delivery.
See the link below for relevant palliative care education information.
Listing of palliative care courses in Australia (link to CareSearch website)
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