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Welcome to the Center to
Advance Palliative Care

We provide essential tools, training, technical assistance, and connection for all clinicians caring for people with a serious illness.

Looking for resources for people living with serious illness?

Visit GetPalliativeCare.org to learn more about palliative care and where to find it in your area.

Become a CAPC Member

Join a vibrant network of health care professionals at over 1,700 organizations benefiting from CAPC membership

  • Start or strengthen your palliative care program
  • Address gaps in care
  • Train staff of all specialties and disciplines in communication, pain and symptom management, and other key skills
Learn about membership
  • CAPC offers a wide variety of free resources, but members get exclusive access to even more.

  • Clinical and operational online curriculum with FREE continuing education credits for all disciplines, and free MOC points for physicians

  • Webinars with leading experts in the field, and Virtual Office Hours where you can consult with CAPC faculty

  • Hundreds of ready-to-use tools, tutorials, case studies, and monographs to draw from best practices in palliative care

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Clinical Training

Clinicians from all specialties and disciplines can improve their skills and practice while earning continuing education credits and CAPC Designation status

Online self-study curriculum units:

Available to non-members
An In-Depth Look at Palliative Care and Its Services

Defining palliative care, which patients need it, how it is delivered, and how palliative care differs from hospice.

Communication Skills

5 Courses

Communication Skills
RECEIVE CAPC DESIGNATION
Complete all courses in the curriculum to receive CAPC Designation
5 COURSES
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Symptom Management

5 Courses

Symptom Management
RECEIVE CAPC DESIGNATION
Complete all courses in the curriculum to receive CAPC Designation
5 COURSES
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Pain Management

14 Courses

Pain Management
RECEIVE CAPC DESIGNATION
Complete all courses in the curriculum to receive CAPC Designation
14 COURSES
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Tools and Technical Assistance

Access proven resources for new and established programs

Resources for improving team health and tools to help clinicians cope with moral distress, grief, and trauma.
Includes 45 resources:
  • Individual Clinician Resources: If You Have 5-10 Minutes
  • Individual Clinician Resources: If You Have 10-30 Minutes
  • Individual Clinician Resources: If You Have 30-60 Minutes
  • Team Wellness Planning: Cultivate Safety for Your Team
  • Team Wellness Planning: Advocate for Change
  • Literature and Thought Pieces on Emotional PPE
  • Relevant CAPC Events
Hire and onboard your staff, manage program operations, and ensure a healthy high-functioning team using this toolkit.
Includes 70 resources:
  • Hiring and Onboarding
  • Sample Job Descriptions
  • Day-to-Day Program Operations
  • Interdisciplinary Team Roles
  • Team Health and Resilience
  • Patient Identification and Trigger Tools
  • Working With Referrers
Tools to help health professionals improve health equity for all people living with serious illness.
Includes 29 resources:
  • Role of Palliative Care in Addressing Health Equity
  • Accessibility and Inclusiveness
  • Addressing Social Determinants of Health
  • Community Assessment: A Health Equity Learning Activity
  • Clinical Resources
See all 45 Toolkits
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