The Population-based Palliative Care Research Network (PoPCRN), based at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado as a means for conducting on-going studies of care at the end of life. Their Web site contain detailed information about their research studies, newsletters, and sites that support their research.
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is a resource to hospitals and other healthcare settings interested in developing palliative care programs. CAPC is a national initiative supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with direction and technical assistance provided by Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) offers courses for undergraduate faculty, clinical end-of-life care educators and other continuing education/staff development educators. The ELNEC project, a comprehensive,
national education program to improve end-of-life care by nurses, is funded by a major grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Primary project goals are to develop a core of expert nursing educators and to coordinate national nursing education efforts in end-of-life care.
Health Gate is a provider of medical, health, and wellness information on the World Wide Web. Health Gate offers an extensive constantly enlarging array of content for physicians, medical researchers, and consumers that is easy and inexpensive to use while maintaining the highest standards of academic and scientific integrity.
The Association of American Medical Colleges has as its purpose the improvement of the nation's health through the advancement of medical schools and teaching hospitals. Web site includes listing of major medical conferences.
