Is pediatric palliative care on medical school agendas in Great Britain?
Adult palliative care has made it to medical school agendas, but this differs depending on the medical school. I think we’ll be able to work toward getting it into pediatrics by perhaps persuading some of the people who are involved in writing the professional exams to include questions on pediatric palliative medicine. We’ve already broached that, and they’re quite happy to do it. Have you and your colleagues been working on any standards or quality indicators for pediatric palliative care that could be used as benchmarks for this growing field? We’re thinking about developing standards in association with training. One of the things we’ll be doing is putting together a syllabus for physicians of what they will be expected to know. So, perhaps the syllabus might be a start in that direction. The nearest we are to setting standards and benchmarks for the kind of care we hope people will achieve is in the recommendations for the development of services that the joint working party of th
