Non-clinical volunteers/ staff/ paid carers.

Program managers of health care projects.

This training program will be particularly useful for trainers and program managers (individuals in management positions in Non-Government Organizations and government agencies) in palliative care. Clinical staff or program managers/ coordinators or community volunteers are eligible to apply. This course is aimed at people working/ interested in the field of palliative care. The program has won Leadership Award by European Association of Palliative Care (EAPC) & European Palliative Care Academy (EUPCA) in 2021 as an example of outstanding leadership capacity building programme worldwide. More than 200 candidates from 52 countries have so far successfully completed training under the Fellowship Program. Those who successfully complete the course will be issued a certificate. The Fellowship Program aims to create a group of palliative care workers with an in-depth knowledge of core issues in organising palliative care at the grassroot level and well versed with the recent advances and challenges in palliative care and community participation regionally, nationally, and globally. The course will cover foundations, concepts, skills in organising and managing palliative care services and application of these in local situations faced by the participant. The objective of the program is to deliver a good quality training program, affordable to participants from low- and middle-income countries. This Fellowship Program is conducted through the Institute of Palliative Medicine, Calicut, India, at the request of WHO as part of its designation as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Community Participation in Palliative Care and Long-term Care. The six- month course is designed as a distance education program with contact sessions based on principles of adult learning. WINNER OF EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF PALLIATIVE CARE (EAPC)/EUROPEAN PALLIATIVE CARE ACADEMY (EUPCA) LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION AWARD 2021įellowship in Palliative Care is an advanced course run by the Institute of Palliative Medicine, India in partnership with Sanjeevan Palliative Care Project, Pondicherry, India, St Christopher’s Hospice, London, United Kingdom and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Bangladesh.

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