We’re dedicated to supporting a continuous learning journey for health care providers to build local capacity to provide a palliative care approach to patients and their families.
Be a part of a community of practice with the Palliative Care ECHO Project
The Palliative Care ECHO Project is a national initiative to cultivate communities of practice and establish continuous professional development among health care providers across Canada who care for patients with life-limiting illness.
Led by Pallium Canada and its network of Hub Partners from across Canada, the Project offers free online programs that bring together health care providers from across Canada with shared interests to foster continued knowledge exchange through interactive, case-based learning.
Why is this important?
Many health care professionals require on-going support and learning as they work to provide a palliative care approach for their patients.
Equity issues in Canada limit access to palliative care education and support, especially in rural or remote communities.
Interactive and case-based learning empowers health care professionals with practical knowledge that supports real-world application, with over 95% of learners finding the webinars highly relevant to their practice.
ECHO is a trusted platform to rapidly disseminate palliative care knowledge, tools, resources across the country.
Learning resources
The Palliative Care ECHO Project delivers its content through national, provincial, and regional communities of practice, webinars and educational series. All national ECHO programming is free for all health care providers to participate, and includes:
Communities of practice
Community-Based Primary Palliative Care, Long-Term Care, Severe and Persistent Mental Illness, Heart Disease and more.
Palliative Care Journal Watch
Keeps you informed on the latest peer-reviewed palliative care literature.
Quality Improvement programs
These programs support incremental improvements to the way we deliver a palliative approach to care.
Standalone sessions
On topics of national interest or priority.
Pallium Canada's role
Pallium Canada’s role as a Superhub is to coordinate and connect the system of hubs across Canada, curate and develop content to support Hub Partners (and their spokes) in meeting their local needs, deliver national palliative care programming, and lead the overall evaluation of the Project’s impacts and reporting.
Hub Partners
Hub partners are at the heart of the Palliative Care ECHO Project and are critical to adapting the Project programming to meet their stakeholders’ needs. Their leadership ensures existing programs and resources reach more health care providers and learners and lead to rapid knowledge sharing of new content and programming to fill gaps and enhance learning opportunities.
Interested in becoming a Hub Partner?
Is your organization passionate about improving palliative care? Become a Hub Partner and together, we can make a difference in the lives of patients with life-limiting illnesses and their families across Canada.
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