Inter-Professional Palliative Care: Developing and Outlining Syllabi and Curricula in Educational Programmes in Palliative Care in Denmark

Chapter 11
by Kirsten Halskov Madsen, Anette Meldgaard and Jette Henriksen
deals with the development of palliative care programmes aimed at the basic
level of palliative care practice. The need to develop educational opportunities
at particularly this level – described as ‘the basic inter-professional level of palliative care’ – has been increasing for many years where palliative care has conventionally and primarily been associated with specialist training. As the authors show – based on a mapping out of existing educational initiatives in a
region of Denmark, a reading of the curriculum and a description of the organization of palliative care – there is a need for such inter-professional palliative care that raises the level of competences at the basic level and the sharing of knowledge as well as securing the continuous qualifying of healthcare staff working with palliative care.