1. Clinical aspects and symptom management
     • Pharmacology: opioids, antidepressants, NSAIDs, anticonvulsants, antiemetics, laxatives and others
     • Emergency situations
     • Symptom evaluation and management: pain, vomiting, nausea, dyspnea, fatigue, 
       anorexia, diarrhea,  constipation, ascites
     • The final hours
     • Technical skills

2. Communication and Coping
     • True or False – communication in palliative care
     • Patients narrative, suffering and discomfort
     • Empathy
     • Curative care cessation
     • Delivery of bad news and hope
     • Working in a team – communication between professionals
     • Preparation of the patients, the family and staff for impending death
     • Preparation of children for loss of a family member

3. The Palliative Care System – Definitions and Characterizations
     • Overview, principles and history of palliative care
     • Dilemmas in palliative care 

 
4. Other
     • Place of death
     • Care setting transitions at the end of life
     • Palliative care in general practice
     • Palliative care in nursing homes
     • Do-not-resuscitate orders
     • Advance care planning
     • End-of-life communication
     • Terminal sedation in medical practice
     • Euthanasia and other medical end-of-life decisions as well as the attitudes of the
       public towards palliative care and euthanasia across Europe