The Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program is a primary care training program preparing graduates for careers in clinical practice.

Canadian Standards of Hospice Palliative Nursing Care

Cancer Net
Cancer Net is a wide range of accurate, credible cancer information from the National Cancer Institute. The comprehensive cancer database includes summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, and supportive care as well as information on ongoing clinical trials.

Caregiver Network
Based in Toronto, Canada, the goal of CNI is to be a national single information source to make your life as a caregiver easier.

Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)
Caregiving is becoming a significant issue for many people. This resource provides help to others to cope with the demands of caregiving.

Center to Improve Care of the Dying
CICD is an interdisciplinary team of committed individuals, engaged in research, public advocacy, and education activities to improve the care of the dying and their families.

Department of Health and Human Services, Healthfinder
Healthfinder is a consumer health and human services information web site, which can lead you to selected online publications, web sites, and not-for-profit organizations

Dying Well
Defining wellness through the 'End of Life': Resources for patients and families facing life-limiting illness.

EDELE- Epidemiology of Dying & End-of-Life experience
This online, searchable catalogue helps you quickly find public data about decedents and care at the end of life.

Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care (EPEC)
Educates physicians, through its core curriculum, on essential clinical competencies required to provide quality end-of-life care.

Eldercare Web
Eldercare Web is a collection of reviewed links to on-line information about health, financing, housing, and other issues related to the care of the frail elderly.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.
Author of "On Death and Dying." Interview with Dr. Daniel Redwood.

End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)
A comprehensive national education program to develop a core of expert nursing educators and to coordinate national nursing efforts in end-of-life care topic areas and educational formats.

End-of-Life Physician Education Resource Center (EPERC)
Assists physician educators and others in locating high-quality, peer-reviewed training materials with educational materials indexed by end-of-life care topic areas and eductional formats.

Grief Guides
From the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care

Hemlock Society USA and PRO-USA
For those who support the rights of the terminally ill to choose death with dignity, who support personal control and autonomy in end-of-life decisions, and who believe that laws should allow a terminally ill person the choice of medical assistance in hastening their death.

Hospice Education Institute
Serves individuals and organizations interested in improving and expanding hospice and palliative care throughout the states and around the world.

Hospice Foundation of America
Offers a range of publications for professionals and the public.

Hospice and Palliative Nurse Association (HPNA)
This is the official site of the Hospice and Palliative Nurse Association (HPNA).

Inventory and Evaluations of Clinical Research Networks (IECRN)
Funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, this organization provides profiles of clinical research networks. The network profiles are summaries of descriptive information about the networks, such as types of studies, funding source, participating entities and special populations.

Innovations in End of Life Care
Bi-monthly online journal that focuses on innovative projects in EOL care.

Institute of Human Values in Health Care
The Medical University of South Carolina; multiple links to helpful organizations regarding end-of-life care.

International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care

International Association for the Study of Pain
IASP is open to scientists, physicians, dentists, psychologists, nurses, physical therapists, and other health professionals actively engaged in pain research and to those who have an interest in the treatment of pain.

Medical College of Wisconsin Palliative Care Program
This program is committed to improving care for the dying in America through the development, implementation and dissemination of innovative educational and clinical care programs.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's web site provides a wide range of information for medical professionals, patients, their families, and the general public.

Midwest Bioethics Center- Caring Conversations
Caring Conversations is a consumer education initiative that helps individuals and their families share meaningful conversation while making practical preparations for end-of-life decisions.

National Alliance for Caregtiving (NAC)

The National Alliance for Children with Life-Threatening Conditions (NACWLTC)

National Association for Home Care (NAHC)
NAHC is committed to serving the home care and hospice industry, which provides services to the sick, the disabled, and the terminally ill in the comfort of their homes.

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)

The National Center for Health Statistics
NCHS provides statistical information that will guide actions and policies to improve the health of the American people.

National Family Caregivers Association
NFCA is predicated on the belief that caregivers that choose to take charge of their lives, and seeing caregiving as but one of its facets, are in a position to be happier and healthier individuals.

The Nathan Cummings Foundation
The Nathan Cummings Foundation seeks to build a society that values nature and protects ecological balance for future generations; promotes humane health care; and fosters arts to enrich communities.

The National Institute on Aging
NIA promotes health aging by conducting and supporting biomedical, social, and behavioral research and public education.

National Prison Hospice Association (NPHA)

Not Dead Yet
Americans with Disabilities want freedom and life.

Office of Academic Affiliations: Hospice and Palliative Care
Comprehensive bibliography, part of the VA Library on End-of-Life Care. Updated Monthly.

OncoLink
The University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center provides easy access to a wide variety of cancer resources including current clinical trials, financial issues for patients and more.

Oregon Health Sciences University Center for Ethics in Health Care
The Center for Ethics combines the perspectives of health professionals, patients, and families to improve teaching, research, and clinical consultation about ethical issues in patient care and health policy.

Palliative Care Virtual Library, UCLA
Good resources for patients and health care providers.

Pediatric Pain
This site provides professional, research, and self-help resources for health care workers, researchers, and parents caring for children in pain.

Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
This site provides professional, research, and self-help resources for health care workers, researchers, and parents caring for children in pain.

Quality-of-Life Assessment in Palliative Care
Article

RAND Center to Improve Care of the Dying
The center conducts research designed to improve a system of care in which persons with serious and eventually fatal chronic illness can live comfortably and meaningfully until death.

Resources for Older People
This serves older people and their families, health and legal professionals, social service providers, and others with an interest in the field of aging. From the Administration on Aging website of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
RWJ is the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care, and has made more than $2 billion in grants.

Supportive Care of the Dying

Symptom Research

UB Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
The Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care is an interdisciplinary academic center which draws upon a wide range of individuals from the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences as well as various health care and academic institutions.

UW Pain and Policy Studies Group
The UW Pain and Policy Studies Group is the study of public policy in relation to pain management, identifying and addressing the barriers to medical use of opioid analgesics.

VA Nationwide Palliative Care Network