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End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center March, 2008 E-NEWS

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1. What's New at www.eperc.mcw.edu

2. Click Here!

3. 200th Fast Fact This Month

4. Weekly Reading

5. Meetings/Training

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1. WHAT'S NEW AT www.eperc.mcw.edu

FAST FACT AND CONCEPT #199: Opioids for Cough

FAST FACT and CONCEPT #200: Non-Opioid Anti-Tussives

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CLICK HERE!

NEW Joint Commission Certification Standards for Palliative Care open for your comments Until April 8, 2008.

http://tinyurl.com/2c6gsv

http://www.nationalhealthcaredecisionsday.org/

National Health Care Decisions Day April 16, 2008

http://tinyurl.com/2nl7ll

Educating the Net Generation -

teaching our Millennial Students

2008 PCLC Training Dates

http://www.eperc.mcw.edu/meetingsindex.htm

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3. 200th FAST FACT THIS MONTH

This is the 200th Fast Fact and

Concept to be published. Fast Facts were started in 2000 by Dr. Eric Warm as a teaching tool at the University of Cincinnati.

They have since become a widely used

palliative care educational tool, and

are recognized internationally.

I think their success has been for

two major reasons. First, they have

been both practical and high quality,

right from the beginning. Second, t

hey have been generated with an ethos

of open-access and free distribution

and so are easily and freely available

to anyone worldwide with internet access.

I have heard stories of Fast Facts being plastered on staff bathroom walls in hospitals, as well as family members of dying patients handing them to doctors asking why aren't they doing it like the Fast Fact says.

I am excited that Fast Facts continue

on and hopefully will make it to 400

in another 8 years. Thank you, Fast Fact readers, for your support of this endeavor over the years.

Drew A Rosielle MD

Editor, Fast Fact and Concepts

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4. WEEKLY READING

+++Article Abstracts Available on PubMed+++

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Fox CR

What health care providers know

(and need to know) about palliative care.

J Allied Health. 2007 Winter;36(4):209-15.

PMID: 18293802

Schiffman JD, Chamberlain LJ, Palmer L, Contro N, Sourkes B, Sectish TC

Introduction of a pediatric palliative care curriculum for pediatric residents.

J Palliat Med. 2008 Mar-Apr;11(2):164-70.

PMID: 18333729

Ruder S

Incorporating spirituality into home

care at the end of life.

Home Healthc Nurse. 2008 Mar;26(3):158-63.

PubMed ID: 18332737

Shanks ME

End-of-life education.

J Gerontol Nurs. 2008 Jan;34(1):5-6;

PubMed ID: 18274298

Hammel JF. Sullivan AM. Block SD. T

wycross R.

End-of-life and palliative care education for final-year medical students: a comparison of Britain and the United States.

Journal of Palliative Medicine.

10(6):1356-66, 2007 Dec.

PubMed ID: 18095815

Bradley CT. Brasel KJ.

Core competencies in palliative care

for surgeons: interpersonal and

communication skills.

American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care.

24(6):499-507, 2007

Dec-2008 Jan.

PubMed ID: 18182636

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5. MEETINGS/TRAINING

+++PODCASTS

The American College of Surgeons Division of Education is pleased to announce the posting of the featured article, "Podcasts Deliver On-Demand Material to Today's Surgical Resident" written by William B. Jeffries, Ph.D., and Thomas Hansen, M.D., of Creighton University School of Medicine, on its Residency Assist Page (RAP), which can be accessed at http://tinyurl.com/3874tc

+++MEETINGS

Women in Pain Conference: Gender Matters May 30, 2008 City of Hope, Duarte, CA For more information:

http://sccpi.coh.org/WIP/WIP8.htm

E-mail: mjohnson@coh.org

Promoting Excellence in Pain Management & Palliative Care for Social Workers August 7-8, 2008 Westin Hotel, Pasadena, CA For more information:

http://tinyurl.com/2tfs5g

E-mail: mjohnson@coh.org

Pain Resource Nurse (PRN) Training Course September 15, 16, 17, 2008 City of Hope, Duarte, CA For more information:

http://tinyurl.com/2uewrm

E-mail: mjohnson@coh.org

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