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Clinical Skills Updates

The Clinical Skills Updates have been built with you in mind to support your growth and enhance your skills regardless of your level of palliative care experience.

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Palliative Care Education

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Informing Choice. Enabling Care.

The Centre for Palliative Care is a leading academic authority in palliative care, educating almost 2000 health professionals each year and engaging in a rich program of research with the focus on improving the quality of life for people with life-limiting illness and their families.

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Palliative Care Masterclass Program

Plan your professional development for by checking out our Masterclass program! Online post grad level education .

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Enhancing care through excellence in education and research

The Centre for Palliative Care is part of St Vincent’s Hospital and a Collaborative Centre of The University of Melbourne. The Centre plays a pivotal role in the development and delivery of state-wide training and education programs for health professionals from a variety of disciplines. Our diverse research program, which includes collaborations with other palliative experts from throughout Australia and around the world, seeks to set benchmarks and improve practices in palliative care.

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Past, present, and possibilities: Using evidence to inform the future of volunteering across palliative care

CPC Annual Lecture 2022. Renowned International Professor Catherine Walshe will deliver a keynote presentation providing a contemporary global view on evidence and trends associated with volunteerism in palliative care.

Wednesday 30 Nov 2022

Link details will be sent to your registered email address 24 hours prior to the event,

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Education Programs

The Centre has a strong commitment to developing, delivering and evaluating education programs that are targeted at health professionals who wish to further their knowledge and skills in palliative care.

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Research Programs

The focus of the Centre's research is on improving the outcomes of patients with a life-limiting illness, and their families. Our researchers collaborate closely with other leaders in the field, both within Australia and overseas, and continually add to the global evidence base by publishing their research results in peer reviewed journal articles and presenting their findings at national and international conferences.

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Psychosocial

Being diagnosed and experiencing a life-limiting illness, or caring for a loved one in that situation, can have a wide ranging impact on patients and carers’ physical and mental health...

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Health Services

The Centre’s Health Services research aims to assess the current provision of palliative care and to develop and rigorously evaluate novel models of palliative care provision to improve patient outcomes.

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