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TL;DR
The study found that mandatory teaching hours vary widely across universities and fall far short of the minimum standards recommended by the European Association for Palliative Care.
BMC Palliative Care · 4 authors, 3 centres
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The study found that mandatory teaching hours vary widely across universities and fall far short of the minimum standards recommended by the European Association for Palliative Care.
Thematic analysis was applied to the qualitative data, and descriptive statistics to the quantitative data. At the time of the survey, three universities had a palliative care chair and at least five had access to a palliative care unit. Mandatory teaching hours varied between two and 15 teaching units of 45 min, all far below the 40 teaching units recommended by the EAPC or the 72 hours proposed by the EDUPALL project. Nonetheless, it provides the first comprehensive picture of palliative care education in Austria and identifies significant heterogeneity and unmet standards.