IAPC Newsletter: December 2024

From the President’s Desk

Dear Friends,

The 32^nd Annual International Conference of the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPCON 2025) is almost here and I am thrilled to draw your attention to the following:

• A final call for abstracts is announced to provide researchers from around the world to present their work in palliative care. Exciting awards such as the ‘IAPC’s Award for Doctors’, the ‘IAPC’s Award for Nurses, Social Workers, Physiotherapists, Pharmacists, Psychologists, and Volunteers’ and the ‘MT Bhatia Award for Best Poster Presentation for Nurses,’ are up for grabs! The last date to submit abstracts is Sunday, 15^th December, 2024…

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Announcements / Messages from IAPC

IAPC’s Infographic of the month

IAPC’s Election Notification: Submit applications before 10^th December, 2024

Call for Proposal: IAPCON 2027

IAPCON 2025: Submit abstracts before 15^th December, 2024. Last chance to register for interesting pre-conference workshops! Submissions invited for IAPCON’s Meme competition!

The IJPC’s October – December 2024 edition is now online

Tune in at 2:50 p.m. on 10^th December, 2024, for a multilingual edition of ‘Singing for the Stars’

Leverage the IAPC’s Social Media to stay connected!

New vacancies from across the country are now published in the IAPC’s Careers page

Call for Support: Your 2 minutes = Someone’s entire lifetime of Peace, Comfort and Dignity!

‘Saath Saath Helpline’: India’s free palliative care helpline

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Education and Training

The ‘Part A’ component of the ‘IAPC’s Foundation Course in Palliative Care for Volunteers’ was conducted successfully in November 2024

Submit applications before 24^th December, 2024, for the IAPC’s ‘Foundation Course in Essentials of Palliative Care’

Applications invited by 15^th December, 2024, for the IAPC’s ‘Certificate Course in Basics of Palliative Care – A blended learning program’

Applications invited for ‘Farishtey: A death doula training program’ at Nayagarh, Odisha, between 6^th and 7^th December, 2024

Apply before 20^th December, 2024, for the 1 year Post Doctoral Fellowship Course in Palliative Medicine, offered by SAMCPGI, Indore

A 2-day CME on ‘Pain and Palliative Care’ for in-service doctors was held on 4^th and 5^th November, 2024, at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

The symposium on ‘Compassionate Leadership in Digital Era – 2024’ conducted successfully at Chennai on 6^th November, 2024

The ‘EPEC India’ program was held successfully between 14^th and 16^th November, 2024, at Bengaluru

Over 100 delegates participated in the ‘Amrita Annual Review – Palliative Medicine Practice updates: A hybrid CME program’ in Kochi on 16^th November, 2024

SGRDIMSR, Amritsar, sensitise individuals in the basics of palliative care at the ‘Vigyan Utsav’ between 18^th and 20^th November, 2024

80 individuals participate in KIPCER’s virtual monthly Guest Lecture ‘Self-management strategies for breathlessness in India’ on 19^th November, 2024

‘Chai pe Charcha: Let’s talk about Death and Dying (and living)’ conducted on 21^st November, 2024

The ‘Evidence for Integrating Palliative Oncology in Advance Cancer Setting’ CME conducted successfully at Bengaluru on 23^rd and 24^th November, 2024

The ‘2nd Academic Series on Palliative Care for Nursing Students’ by DNipCare, GNC, and ECHO India, concluded on 23^rd November, 2024

Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Center, Madurai, celebrated ‘National Family Caregivers Month’ on 23^rd November, 2024

A two-day ‘ELNEC Pediatric Palliative Nursing Workshop’ conducted at AIIMS Jodhpur in September, 2024

Update from the APM’s lecture series

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Awards and Recognitions

IMA Kerala felicitated Dr Biji M S and Dr Biju Raghavan with the ‘President’s Appreciation Award’, on 10^th November, 2024

SVYM’s Dharwad Chapter awarded the ‘Dheemanta Sanmana Award’ on 12^th November, 2024, by the Hubbali – Dharwad Municipal Corporation

CanSupport celebrated 28 years of service on 8^th November, 2024

The Department of Palliative Medicine, AIMS, Kochi, inaugurated a virtual Palliative Patient Support group on 16^th November, 2024

IPM and Marie Curie Palliative Center ink an MoU on 20^th November, 2024, to collaborate on global training and research initiatives

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Interesting Reads

IAPC’s Exclusive Articles

• ‘Is it Time to Revise Medical Ethics?’, by Dr Pratyasa Padhi, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
• ‘What being a ‘caregiver’ taught me: A Doctor’s Perspective’, by Dr Praul Raina, Bengaluru, Karnataka
• ‘Medicine Beyond Pills: A dose of humanity’, by Ms Sneha P, Vallikkunnu, Kerala

Other Compelling reads

• ‘Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional: The resilience of a homemaker’, a republication from ehospice (India edition)
• ‘How Palliative Care Helps Families with Dementia Focus on Quality of Life’, a republication from Getpalliativecare

Other upcoming events

Register before 5^th December, 2024, to participate in the ‘Cancer Pain and Onco-Palliative Care CME’ by KMCH, 7^th December, 2024, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

Applications invited before 31^st December, 2024, for the ‘Cynthia Goh Award’ and the ‘Lien Collaborative Bursary Award’; Registrations invited for the 16^th APHC Conference 2025, 23^rd – 26^th April, 2025, Sarawak, Malaysia

Submit applications before 17^th January, 2025, for the ‘EAPC Researcher Award’; Registrations invited for the 19^th World Congress of the EAPC, 29^th – 31^st May, 2025, Helsinki, Finland

Abstracts invited for the 9^th Advance Care Planning International Conference, Australia, 24^th – 26^th September, 2025

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