The cross-sectional subject of palliative medicine (Q13) has been anchored in the medical licensing regulations since 2009. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the subject area offers every opportunity to teach the care of people in the last phase of life in its entirety during medical studies.

The palliative medicine module is part of the HannibaL model course at Hannover Medical School (MHH) in the fifth year of study and serves as an introduction to palliative medicine with special consideration of the different perspectives of outpatient and inpatient care, deepening the content of internal medicine, general medicine, geriatrics, ethics, pastoral care, pediatrics, psychosomatics, anesthesiology and intensive care medicine as well as pain therapy, including the discussion of complex cases. Individual aspects of palliative medicine are already taught from the first year of study and taken up in the sense of the teaching spiral. This content is taught in lectures, clinical teaching rounds and small groups. The small group work focuses on case-oriented learning (FOL). The clinical teaching rounds are closely interlinked with the block placement in general practice. As part of an excursion, students also get to know various Facilities or Institutions relevant to palliative care (e.g. palliative care units, hospices, outpatient palliative and hospice services, etc.) and their areas of activity.

The teaching responsibility for the Palliative Medicine module lies with the Institute ofGeneral Medicine and Palliative Medicine in cooperation with the Clinical Department of Haematology, Haemostaseology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation. Internal and external lecturers from other clinical and theoretical subjects are also involved, so that palliative medicine is taught in all its facets. Further information can be found in our curriculum.