Competency-based education approaches in palliative and end-of-life care in cancer : Cancer Journey Action Group

The scan addresses the following questions: • Does the literature support the need for and the success of competency- based education approaches in palliative and end-of-life care in cancer and generally? [...] Methodology The methodology is based on four approaches: • A bibliographic literature review • A review of websites • Key informant interviews • A review of documents identified from the above approaches Bibliographic Literature Review The goal of the literature review is to examine the need for and the success of competency-based education approaches in palliative and end-of-care in cancer and ge [...] Search strategies were constructed, relevant to each database, on the following concepts: • Competencies and competency-based education in palliative and end-of-life care in cancer • Competencies and competency-based education in palliative and end-of-life care • Competency-based education Following the search, the tables of contents of specific relevant journals for the years 2008, 2007 and 2006 [...] Findings from the Bibliographic Literature Search: Competency-Based Education in Palliative and End-of- Life Care in General and/or in Cancer When exploring the literature for the existence and evaluation of competency- based education in palliative and end-of-life care, whether in cancer or in general, the literature tended to focus on two areas: the need for and influence of palliative and end-o [...] This literature tended to focus on the following areas: the need for and influence of palliative and end-of-life care curricula, and the development of competencies in palliative and end-of-life care.