Abstract
Despite the growing importance of end-of-life care and the need to improve it, physicians receive little formal training in palliative care. The Education for Physicians on End-of-life Care (EPEC) project, developed by the American Medical Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, tested a train-the-trainer educational intervention to address this deficiency. This paper presents data from a process evaluation of the initial rollout of EPEC. By all accounts, EPEC provided a state-of-the-art curriculum covering important and clinically relevant topics to the care of the dying patient. It was less clear, however, if EPEC adequately prepared trainees to teach these new skills to other practicing physicians. Factors that may advance efforts to generalize EPEC to other settings and improve future applications of the program are discussed.
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