Programa Medicina Paliativa y Cuidados Continuos, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), Santiago, Chile; Departamento Medicina Interna, Facultad de Medicina, PUC, Santiago, ChileChile
Programa Medicina Paliativa y Cuidados Continuos, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), Santiago, Chile; Departamento Medicina Familiar, Facultad de Medicina, PUC, Santiago, ChileChile
Department of Palliative Care, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Department of Palliative Care, Cairdeas International Palliative Care Trust, UKUnited Kingdom
Programa Medicina Paliativa y Cuidados Continuos, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), Santiago, Chile; Departamento Medicina Gastroenterología, Facultad de Medicina, PUC, Santiago, ChileChile
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On May 24 th , 2014, the World Health Assembly (WHA) issued the resolution 67.19: “Strengthening of palliative care (PC) as a component of comprehensive care throughout the life course”,1 which crowned the efforts of hundreds of professionals who have worked to extending the field of PC and making it available to everyone, throughout the continuum of care and across all levels.
Keywords: Post graduate; Education; Palliative care; Latin America
ity of these programs are varied and the level of competencies developed by the trainees among these programs are extremely Dr. Perez-Cruz is supported by the National Grant: FondecytIniheterogeneous. Moreover, if we consider that teaching PC skills cio 2013 # 11130533.
have an essential practical component, the fact that many of the training programs are only theoretical, implies that some train-
ees are obtaining sub-optimal education in PC.
The authors have no conflicts of interests to declare. The problem of getting high quality postgraduate PC training for HCP is particularly relevant for developing coun-