Undergraduate teaching resources

Palliative care teaching leads from the Scottish University Medical Schools have, together, developed some teaching resources. We have collected some PowerPoint presentations, worksheet documents and also a list of video resources together here.

PDF copies of Short PowerPoint Presentations
Demography of death and dying and illness trajectories of decline (965.45 KB PDF) International inequalitites in Palliative Care (875.77 KB PDF) Dimenions of palliative care needs: physical, social, psychological and existential (312.01 KB PDF) Role of Palliative Care in disease management (1.11 MB PDF) Pain control - nausea and vomiting (2.4 MB PDF) Pain control - analgesic ladder (1.68 MB PDF) Pain control - constipation (3.74 MB PDF) Opioid toxicity and alternative opioids (45.51 KB PDF) What to do after a death (704.54 KB PDF) Palliative Care - top tips for FY1 (397.89 KB PDF)
Worksheets to promote individual or group work
Social and Ethical Issues in Palliative Care (24.88 KB PDF) Pain Control (239.3 KB PDF) Recognising the terminal phase (886.31 KB PDF) End of Life Care (24.78 KB PDF) Palliative care session for FY1s (10.04 KB PDF)
Short videos
Palliative care in Africa - 4 minute video
When I die: lessons from the death zone
20 takes on death and dying
Life before death: the D word
EAPC Award 2013
Other resources
Electronic learning resources - palliative care (15.77 KB PDF) Dignity conserving palliative care, Chochinov (1.48 MB PDF) Bibliography including Palliative care beyond cancer, BMJ Spotlight (1.55 MB PDF)