Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)

08/20/2025

The CAPC National Seminar 2025 is made possible thanks to the generous support of our amazing sponsors and exhibitors.

Thank you to our 2025 sponsors: The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, carelon, American Cancer Society, Cambia Health Foundation, Ochsner Health, The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation, Catholic Health Association of the United States, The John A. Hartford Foundation, Providence Institute for Human Caring, nTakt, Samaritan, and Vynca.

Thank you to all our Sponsors and Exhibitors: https://www.capc.org/seminar/sponsors-and-exhibitors/

08/19/2025

CAPC’s Symptom Management Courses https://ow.ly/eu9i50V6wuu

CAPC has updated our Symptom Management courses with the most up-to-date clinical techniques for assessing and managing common sources of distress such as nausea, constipation, dyspnea, depression, and anxiety. Both palliative care and non-palliative care clinicians can take these online courses to learn evidence-based strategies to improve patient quality of life and help prevent avoidable crises.

What’s New?
✅ Integration of the latest clinical information and techniques
✅ Practical management strategies to reduce serious complications and side effects
✅ Inclusion of the latest guidelines on the treatment of mental health symptoms in those with serious illness

CAPC members, if you have taken our previous Symptom Management courses, you can take these and earn new continuing education credits (for physicians, nurses, social workers, and care managers). Free ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credits are also available for physicians.

08/18/2025

New virtual clinical workshop 'Prescribing Ketamine for Symptom Management in Patients with Serious Illness' >> https://ow.ly/vAMu50WEGiA

CAPC is offering new virtual clinical workshops focused on the use of ketamine for patients living with serious illness, particularly those experiencing refractory pain and treatment-resistant depression. Taught by expert faculty, these case-based, two-hour interactive sessions equip clinicians with practical knowledge on the safe and effective use of ketamine, including real-world applications and clinical decision-making strategies.

Participants will gain an increased understanding of:
🔹 What ketamine is, how it works, and its unique potential for patients with serious illness in complex palliative care scenarios.
🔹 The neurobiology of ketamine, including its action on NMDA receptors and relevance to symptom control.
🔹 The current evidence outlining the utilization of ketamine for patients with serious illness, with a focus on refractory pain and depression.
🔹 Practical guidance on prescribing strategies, including routes, dosing, safety profiles, and side effect management.
🔹 Navigating regulatory and logistical barriers to prescribing.
🔹 Ethical and clinical decisions in prescribing ketamine working through real-world case vignettes.

CAPC membership is NOT required, but members receive discounted registration.

08/17/2025

Medical educators, explore CAPC’s clinical training to help fill gaps in the formal curriculum >> http://ow.ly/K4Fa50OrhB4

Explore Learning Pathways to equip students, residents, and fellows with the knowledge and skills to provide high-quality care for patients with a serious illness.

08/17/2025

'Palliative Care Ensures Value': One-page infographic to introduce your organization leaders, referrers, and health plans to the quality, satisfaction, and utilization improvements resulting from palliative care.

Download >> https://ow.ly/xbsx50Phlrk

08/15/2025

Enroll Your Team in 2025 PCLC Training and Mentoring >> https://ow.ly/Q3Jb50Qubn3

Palliative Care Leadership Centers™ (PCLC) training and a full year of mentoring can help your team achieve program growth and sustainability, and the best quality and highest value patient care.

Virtual and in-person training options are available for programs of every setting, stage, and size. Space is limited. You must be a team of two or more to attend. If you are interested in training with a PCLC, contact the PCLC of your choice to discuss availability and obtain an application.

08/13/2025

CAPC Learning Pathways are curated courses and tools based on your specialty, discipline, or area of interest. There are 50+ Learning Pathways with recommended courses for nurses, social workers, care managers, chaplains, hospitalists, oncologists, hospice professionals, surgeons, and more.
🔗 https://ow.ly/QjBQ50UXRF2

CAPC courses provide free continuing education credits for all staff at CAPC member organizations, and ABIM MOC credits for physicians.

08/12/2025

📰 'Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Intensive Care Unit Consultation'
🔗 https://ow.ly/crCy50WE6HU

In an article published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, CAPC faculty Karen Bullock, PhD, and co-authors share their top ten tips to support palliative care clinicians providing consultations in the ICU. The tips address relationship-building with ICU clinicians and teams in order to foster effective collaboration and establish goals of care, and more.

08/11/2025

📣 Marketing and Messaging Palliative Care toolkit
🔗 http://ow.ly/Lbqm50NYtY0

Accurately defining and discussing palliative care is crucial to effectively communicate its benefits to patients, families, referral sources, and service partners. CAPC’s Marketing and Messaging Palliative Care toolkit has tools and information to help you and your team refine your program’s marketing strategy and your messaging. Most tools are open access.

Explore the toolkit today!

08/10/2025

New! Take CAPC’s Open Access Course → Introduction to Palliative Care https://ow.ly/WQMs50VEb8r

CAPC's new open-to-all clinical training course, Introduction to Palliative Care, provides health care professionals with an introduction to palliative care, how it is delivered, its impact on quality of life, and the growing population of patients who need it.

Take the course and ⤵
✔ Learn what palliative care is and the core clinical services the palliative care team provides
✔ Discover how palliative care is appropriate at any stage of serious illness, and its positive impacts on patients and caregivers
✔ Learn about the interdisciplinary palliative care team, and the elements of a comprehensive, interdisciplinary assessment
✔ Access essential resources to facilitate incorporating palliative care principles into practice

Physicians, nurses, social workers, and care managers from CAPC member organizations, log in and take the course to earn free CE/CMEs. Free ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credits are also available for physicians. Non-members earn a Verification of Attendance certificate.

08/09/2025

CAPC Training Assignments: Enhance Skills through Health Care Continuing Education
🔗 https://www.capc.org/training-assignments/

CAPC Training Assignments are a convenient, effective way for health care organizations to achieve their clinical training goals. CAPC member organizations have unlimited access to our award-winning online continuing education courses, learning activities, games, and tools. Develop customized Training Assignments that staff can complete anytime, anywhere. All CAPC courses provide CE and CME credits for clinicians across specialties, and ABIM MOC credits for physicians—at no cost to the clinicians.

Health care continuing education through CAPC Training Assignments, a convenient, effective way for health care organizations to achieve their clinical training goals.

08/08/2025

🔵 Have you checked out CAPC Circles yet? CAPC members have exclusive access to CAPC Circles, a mobile-friendly online forum to connect with other palliative care professionals. >> https://ow.ly/tx1M50UHMJw

These ambassadors, Heidi Barham, M.Div., CT CDP®, Sandra Gomez, MD, FAAHPM, Ariel Clay, MBA, MS, RN, ANP-BC, ACHPN, and Philip H. Santa-Emma, MD, FAAHPM, are ready to facilitate meaningful discussions, share practical solutions, and guide peer collaboration.

CAPC Circles is the place for virtual conversation among palliative care professionals. This community provides opportunities for networking, problem solving, and generating new ideas. Join a circle today!