E-Learning on palliative care for international students
ELPIS is a European project that has developed a palliative care learning platform aimed at international students. Created by European universities, its goal is to enhance medical training in this essential field for human dignity. In response to the shortage of experts and resources in Europe, ELPIS uses both synchronous and asynchronous online learning technologies to facilitate the teaching of key competencies. It offers a theoretical framework and course materials that can be implemented or serve as inspiriring models for palliative care education.
The main goal is to enhance the quality of PC in the EU through a better and more uniform education at the undergraduate level
This goal is relevant not only because of the importance of PC but also because of the increasing cross-border mobility of medical graduates across the Union, seeking both post-graduate education and occupation. To achieve this goal, the “E-Learning on Palliative care for International Students (ELPIS)” project has five objectives:
Five
objectives
1) to promote the design of internally coherent and comparable online undergraduate medical education programs on PC, through the development of a theoretical educational framework;
2) to promote effective implementation of online programs on PC, through the development of practice guidelines that are flexible enough to be suitable for the local organizational context of higher education and PC - fit for the local cultural approach to palliative care and other end of life issues, including the students’ point of view;
3) to broadcast sharable educational resources, in different European languages;
4) to validate the theoretical framework and guidelines through testing and comparing the effectiveness of some local implementations of an online program on PC;
5) to design and implement faculty development programs to sustain the design of curricula in PC and the use of the educational resources.
Funded by the European Commission
Grant Agreement ID: 2020-1-RO01-KA202-080128
Total EU Contribution: 399.597€.
Coordinator: Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy)
Partners: Fondazione ant Italia ONLUS (Italy); Rheinisch-
Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Germany); Hospice Casa Sperantei (Romania); McMaster University (Canada); Pecsi Tudamnyegyetem - University of Pecs (Hungary)
Main researcher
Carlos Centeno
ccenteno@unav.es
ATLANTES Global Observatory of Palliative Care
Coordinator:
→ Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy)
Partners:
→ Fondazione ant Italia ONLUS (Italy)
→ Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Germany)
→ Hospice Casa Sperantei (Romania)
→ McMaster University (Canada)
→ Pecsi Tudamnyegyetem - University of Pecs (Hungary)
→ University of Navarra (Spain)