A Multi-disciplinary Teaching DVD for Students, Faculty and Community Education: Providing Palliative Care in BC Hospice/ Palliative Care Settings

There is a gap in health education and community awareness around end-of-life care. Most palliative care programs do not speak to the heart nor do they give adequate attention to the range of physical, psychological, and existential suffering or the opportunity for growth and healing that dying presents. Following our success in palliative care undergraduate, post graduate and CME using the 1999 film End Notes, we aim to extend the curriculum and enhance public education by creating a multidisciplinary teaching DVD of the personal experiences of those who give and receive care. Objectives:

• To tell the story of one patient and their family’s experience in the following palliative care settings: VGH, Richmond Hospice, and Canuck Place.
• To use the DVD in UBC undergraduate, postgraduate, CME courses, public education forums, conferences and the media.
• To provide a sustainable learning product representative of current palliative care philosophy and practice.

Patricia Boston, Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine
Alan Nixon, Fraser Health
Ann Hansson, PMP
Hal Siden, Canuck Place
Romayne Gallagher, PHC
Fraser Back, VIHA
Pippa Hawley, Co-Director, YAC
Gillian Fyles, BCCA
David Kuhl, Director, Centre for Health Practitioner Renewal
Douglas McGregor, Coastal Health
Lys Fonger, IMP
Douglas Cave, Psychologist
Shafik Dharamsi, Director, CLISS
Nadia Primiani, Resident, FP
Harvey Bosma, Course Administrator, IHHS 405
Anne Bruce, Clinical Assistant Professor
Pat Porterfield, Regional Leader Palliative Care
Jack DaSilva, Coordinator Ambulatory Pharmacy, St Paul’s Hospital
Bertie Glusman, Senior Program Assistant
Jensen Lau, Work Study Research Assistant