Topic

Providing palliative care in rural and remote locations.

Content

Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) offers two courses for rural and remote doctors:

  • Palliative Care - Choose your own journey
    • to prepare and equip rural and remote practitioners to provide best-practice palliative care and symptom management for dying patients in their place of choice.
  • Palliative Care - A Doctor's Bag
    • to ensure that rural and remote practitioners are prepared and equipped to provide best practice palliative care and symptom management for dying patients in their place of choice.

Depth

Beginner to intermediate

Time to complete

  • Palliative Care - Choose your own journey – 2 hours
  • Palliative Care - A Doctor's Bag - 4 hours

Target audience

Rural and remote doctors

Authors

ACRRM, Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative, and Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education

Comments

Linked to the courses are CPD hours:

  • Palliative Care - Choose your own journey – 2 performance review hours
  • Palliative Care - A Doctor's Bag – 2 educational activity hours

Registration required

Yes

Payment required

  • Palliative Care - Choose your own journey - free
  • Palliative Care - A Doctor's Bag
    • Members - free
    • Non-Members $95.00

Student support

Education Development Team
Email: education@acrrm.org.au
Phone: 61 07 3105 8200

Certificate

Yes

Country of origin

Australia

Web Address

https://mycollege.acrrm.org.au/search/find-online-learning and use search term “palliative”

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