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A WHO guide for planners, implementers and managers
WHO suggests training requirements for PHC staff members who provide palliative care as follows
(3).
Doctors, clinical officers, assistant doctors, nurse practitioners, feldshers:
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minimum: basic course (30–40 hours)
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ideal: intermediate-level course (60–80 hours).
Nurses:
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minimum: basic course (30–40 hours)
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ideal: intermediate-level course (60–80 hours).
Implementers or leaders of community-based or mobile palliative care teams (doctors or nurses):
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5–6-week course focused on developing palliative care services:
o Example: the Palliative Care Initiators’ Course offered by Hospice Africa Uganda http://uganda.
hospiceafrica.or.ug/index.php/int-l-programmes/initiator-courses
See Annex 5 for sample curricula for doctors, nurses and CHWs.
CHWs and volunteers:
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minimum: 3–6 hours (for established, supervised CHWs):
o Example: a workbook for training CHWs, volunteers and family carers from the Institute
of Palliative Care in Kerala, India, a WHO Collaborating Centre (75) http://www.
instituteofpalliativemedicine.org/downloads/Palliative%20Care%20Workbook%20for%20
Carers.pdf; topics include:
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