Category: Newsletter

From the President’s Desk Wishing all the members of Indian Association of Palliative Care, a very Happy New Year-2020, the last year of the decade.  I want to thank you all for the excellent and constructive work we did in 2019. We have achieved a lot in the previous year and lot more need to…

h2>Announcement! Election for the post of IAPC Zonal members will be held during IAPCON 2020 Guwahati, on 15th February 2020 at the Conference venue. Notification and nomination form has been uploaded on IAPC website. For more details kindly visit our Home page. News & Events 4th National Conference of Students Association of PC Fourth National…

Announcement IAPCON 2020 website is functional: www.iapcon2020guwahati.in (old website is defunct) As The Filmfare awards are going to be conducted on 15th Feb 2020, in Guwahati, all the hotels will be booked. Therefore we request all the delegates to book their hotels for accommodation, before 15th Nov’19 .Contact Mr. Anand Das for bookings at reasonable…

From The President’s Desk   Dear Friends, As you must be aware, the WHO has initiated a process for revising its issued guidance documents on pain management. As part of an update of the 2011 WHO document “Ensuring balance in national policies on controlled substances: Guidance for availability and accessibility of controlled medicines”, the Division…

News & Events National CME cum CNE & Workshop on Pain and Palliative care NEIGRIHMS (North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences,Shillong) organized National CME cum CNE & Workshop from 9th to 11th Aug’19. This included panel discussion on Morphine and other opioids and the legal aspects of using it. Panelists…

News & Events IAPC initiates Volunteer Certificate Course in Bihar A training of the Volunteer Certificate Course for community volunteers in Palliative care as recognized by the Indian Association of Palliative Care was conducted on 6th and 7th July 2019 at Mahavir Cancer Sansthan & Research Centre, Patna. The training programme was inaugurated by Dr.…

Chronic Pain added to the International Classification of Diseases I am writing with some exciting news: the World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted the 11th version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) which includes a new classification system for chronic pain. This revision is a milestone achievement for IASP and the direct result of six years of…

From The National Information Officer’s Desk Care and Empathy has been the core values of IAPC. Dear members, over the last two years, as NIO, for IAPC, I have witnessed the above values enshrined in every activity of the association. IAPC has been touching the lives of hundreds of the needy every day and there…

From The President’s Desk It has been two months since I took charge as presidentship of our esteemed organization- The ‘Indian Association of Palliative care’. I feel delighted that with efforts of all the stalwarts of Palliative Medicine, we could achieve the following by meticulous follow up in just two months, which I promised as…

INTEGRATING PALLIATIVE MEDICINE INTO MBBS UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM From 2019 onwards, the MCI has revised the MCI curriculum and has introduced several new topics relating to palliative medicine. It has introduced an entirely new section called AETCOMS (Attitude, Ethics and Communication) which has aspects related to principles and practice of palliative care. The topics relate to…