Newsletter: September 2022 Edition From the President’s Desk Dear Friends, On behalf of IAPC, I am delighted to announce the launch of several exciting training programs designed by IAPC, which aim to empower our palliative care professionals and volunteers to deliver quality palliative care to those in need. The first in this series will be…
Read MoreYoung minds concerted for the right approach to palliative care! – Dr. Sanghamitra Bora, Guwahati Recent years have brought a global recognition to palliative care as a human right to health and as an essential component of primary care available to all. Advocacy by civil society groups and stalwarts of the discipline, have greatly catapulted…
Read MoreThe moment of HOPE: a doctor’s perspective – Dr. Ruparna Khurana, New Delhi Poised and serene, dignified and eloquent he sat tall and expectant on his favourite recliner number 8, with an intravenous cannula facilitating a continuous gush of cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agent named gemcitabine into his blood stream. I smiled as I realised, I could…
Read MorePalliative Care services for rural and tribal communities: An experience of integrated care – Dr. V. Raman, Dr. Kumar G. S., Dr. Shridevi S., Dr. M. R. Seetaram and Dr. Chauhan, Mysore Tribal communities in India have far worse health indicators than the general population, particularly among forest-based and indigenous communities. Several challenges like limited…
Read MorePlanetary Health and Palliative Care; voices of indigenous peoples from marginalisation to the centre – Dr. Mhoira E. F. Leng, Scotland For too long the voices of indigenous people the world over have been relegated to the margins. Our focus as a global community has been on progress which is all too often measured in…
Read MoreEnrol for the “ASCO Palliative Care’s e-Course” offered jointly by TMH, ASCO and PCIC The Tata Memorial Hospital Department of Palliative Medicine in collaboration with American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Curriculum (PCIC ) Project is pleased to organize an ‘ASCO Palliative Care e-Course’ (APCeC). The advanced Palliative Care course…
Read MoreIAPC Academy’s online Lecture Series 5 “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” ― Albert Einstein The IAPC Academy’s online Lecture Series 5 will be on ‘Training in Palliative Care Research’ This series aims to introduce our budding researchers to the basic concepts in research. It focuses…
Read MoreNewsletter: August 2022 Edition From the President’s Desk Dear Friends, On behalf of the IAPC, I am elated to announce travel scholarships worth Rs. 1,00,000/- for IAPC Members presenting papers at IAPCON 2023. The winners of the scholarship will be selected by the Scientific Committee of IAPCON 2023. Authors of the 10 best abstracts, will…
Read MoreMusic Therapy in the journey of a cancer patient – Dr. Arkanil Gain, New Delhi Cancer is one of the most feared and stigmatized diagnosis prevailing in this world. It disrupts various aspects of one’s life starting from the physical, social, psychological aberrations and their interpersonal relationships. The journey for a cancer patient and their…
Read MoreThere Are Some – Mr. Harshvardhan Ghanshyam More, Kohlapur There are some, whose steady hands made,Take the incision with 15 no. blade There are some, who look for many causes,To calculate, the confusing chemo doses There are some, with caution and precaution,To decide, the fraction and dose of radiation There are some, with head in…
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