Partner Initiatives
Institutional Initiatives: The following institutions have worked with The EPEC Project to implement the core curriculum throughout their institutions.
EPEC-O: EPEC has launched a collaboration with the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) to create EPEC-Oncology (EPEC-O).
ASCO, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and the EPEC Project offered an comprehensive workshop to help optimize care for patients throughout the course of their illness. The EPEC-O Train-the-Trainer Workshop was held on June 13 – 15, 2005.
EPEC-EM: The first-ever palliative and end-of-life care education targeted to emergency medicine clinicians will soon be a reality, thanks to combined efforts of Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine faculty member, Linda L. Emanuel, MD, PhD, Professor and Director of the Buehler Center on Aging, and a select group of emergency medicine physicians, such as Tammie E. Quest, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine. The result will be a new Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care - Emergency Medicine (EPEC-EM) train-the-trainer curriculum.
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EPEC VA (VISN-4): As part of its partner
initiatives, EPEC collaborated with the VA - Coatesville and
10 affiliate VA hospitals to teach the EPEC core curriculum. The
conference, open to VA care providers, took place
in Coatesville, PA, from June 9-11, 2004.
EPEC-Puerto Rico
EPEC PACE: A primary care symposium presented by EPEC in collaboration with the National PACE Association.
EPEC NMH: A quality improvement effort at Northwestern Memorial Hospital using EPEC Training and the EPEC Curriculum.
EPEC International:
These are some of the projects that EPEC is internationally involved
with:
Dr. Frank Ferris brings The EPEC Project to the international arena
Hospice Africa - Uganda
- To provide a palliative care service to patients and families, within a 20km radius of Hospice. To promote this care throughout Uganda.
- To carry out education programmes in palliative medicine, to health professionals at undergraduate and postgraduate levels throughout Uganda so that this form of care can be available to all in need.
- To encourage the initiation/consolidation of palliative care in other African countries, by providing a facility at Hospice Uganda for training, and experience of Palliative care working in the African context.
EPEC Mt. Sinai: The EPEC Project and Mt. Sinai Hospital in Chicago are partnering together to produce a series of grand rounds presentations and small group sessions for healthcare professionals interested in palliative and end-of-life care. Mt. Sinai has, for several generations, provided care to the near west side of Chicago. Over the past 5 years they have emphasized their commitment to improve care of patients with life-threatening illness. This cooperative venture is part of their ongoing efforts in this area and is supported with funding from the Retirement Research Foundation.
There will be six grand rounds presentations over the next two years, directed towards residents and attending physicians, to cover the modules from the EPEC Curriculum. This series was started on March 16, 2005 at Mt. Sinai Hospital. EPEC Director Michael Preodor, MD, taught the plenary Gaps in End-of-life Care. Then, physicians were split into three groups and Michael Preodor along with EPEC Associate Physician Joshua Hauser, MD, and Master Facilitator Judy Hills, MD, taught the module Communicating Bad News. A similar structure will be used to cover the entire EPEC Curriculum over the next two years, and EPEC Master Facilitators will be involved in the teaching.
Part of the needs assessment that began this project included conducting five focus groups, with several in Spanish, to stimulate discussion in lay audiences about end-of-life care and to solicit their views regarding quality and availability. The results of these focus groups will be incorporated into the teaching materials.
Curricular adaptations: These partners have adapted and supplemented the EPEC Curriculum
with the permission of the EPEC Project to help bring palliative
care to different populations.
EPEC Roman
Catholic: An adaptation of EPEC for Catholic populations
EPEC
for Geriatrics:
A collaboration between EPEC and the American
Geriatrics Society focusing on geriatric palliative care
ENDLINK:
An internet-based adaptation of the EPEC Curriculum.
The
APPEAL Project: A Progressive
Palliative Care Educational Curriculum for the
Care of African Americans at Life's
End Project addresses barriers to care, disparity issues, and quality care that is sensitive to cultural issues, traditions and preferences of African Americans.
See photos of Dr. Preodor at a recent APPEAL conference here.
The EPEC-India: article is featured in this month's
IAHPC newsletter with some of the photos.
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