Hospice Palliative Care Training for Physicians: A Self-Study Program

The Academy's self-study program consists of a series of monographs, or UNIPACs, each following the recommended format for self-instructional learning including objectives, pretest, reading material, clinical situations, posttest and references. Eight UNIPACs are approved for CME credit, on a range of topics (e.g. Ethical and Lega Decision Making, Communication and the Physician's Role on the Interdisciplinary Team, Approach to Caring for Pediatric Patients, etc).