E-Learning on Palliative care for International Students

Palliative care (PC) “is fundamental to human dignity and a component of the human right to health” (Resolution 2249 – 2018 of the European Parliamentary Assembly) and this is why education and tr...

The main goal of the ELPIS project is to enhance the quality of PC in the EU through a better and more uniform education at the undergraduate level. This goal is relevant also because of the increasing cross-border mobility of medical graduates across the Union. To achieve this goal, the ELPIS project had five intertwined objectives: 1. to promote the design of internally coherent and comparable online undergraduate medical education programs on PC, through the development of a theoretical educational framework 2. to promote effective implementation of online programs on PC, through the development of practice guidelines that are flexible enough to be - suitable for the local organizational context of higher education and PC - fit for the local cultural approach to palliative care and other end-of-life issues, including the students’ point of view 3. to broadcast sharable educational resources, in different European languages 4. to validate the theoretical framework and guidelines through testing and comparing the effectiveness of some local implementations of an online program on PC 5. to design and implement faculty development programs to sustain the design of curricula in PC and the use of the educational resources