ABSTRACT

Education of healthcare professionals is the cornerstone of specialist palliative services. This book is a practical toolbox of teaching techniques. Accessible, practical and easy to use it will encourage busy clinicians to teach by increasing their confidence in their training abilities. It provides a resource of various tools and describes how to approach teaching in a team, planning, methods and evaluation. Each chapter presents a menu of tried and tested techniques and closes with examples of lesson plans. The multidisciplinary experiences of the contributors are reflected in the book and healthcare professionals working in palliative care, hospitals, hospices or the community will find it to be essential reading.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|6 pages

The teaching approach

chapter 2|10 pages

Planning and organising

chapter 3|8 pages

Teaching techniques: Introductions

chapter 4|8 pages

Teaching techniques: Presentations

chapter 8|6 pages

Evaluation

chapter 9|8 pages

Training the trainers

chapter 10|10 pages

Lesson plans

chapter 11|1 pages

Conclusions