Clinical Excellence Case Set

Aquifer Palliative Care

Aquifer Palliative Care provides foundational knowledge and practical clinical application of the principles of palliative care that every clinician should know to improve outcomes and quality of life for seriously ill patients and their families.

Aquifer – supported by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations – developed a national, standardized curriculum and online course that addresses critical gaps in palliative care learning across undergraduate medical and health professions education.

Aquifer Palliative Care is part of Aquifer’s Clinical Excellence Case Set, which includes 52 cases covering Palliative Care, Trauma Informed Care, Diagnostic Excellence, High Value Care, Social Determinants of Health, and telemedicine.

Demo a Case

Demonstration Cases for Public Use

Just in Time Coverage of Palliative Care Embedded in Select Courses

In addition to the stand-alone cases on Palliative Care included as part of this Clinical Excellence Case Set, select core cases in Pediatrics, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Neurology, and Radiology now have brief teaching on Palliative Care embedded right into the case in the form of a clinical decision making question.

Together the just-in-time curricular threads combined with the deeper principles and application cases provide a strong foundation in Palliative Care across the curriculum without adding faculty time.

I like that these cases are real-life scenarios and very applicable to the patients I see in clinic with my mentors. I feel just by doing these cases in a few days, my experience in family medicine has improved by leaps and bounds and my mentors can see a marked improvement and change in me, even down to how I interact with patients and present myself. Thank you so much Aquifer, you're a lifesaver!

Medical Student

3rd Year

In the first and second years of medical school, you learn a lot about physiology and diseases—usually by organ system. Aquifer Family Medicine gives you the opportunity to start thinking about the way that patients actually present—and begin to apply what you already know. The cases are a wonderful way to start turning medical facts into clinical judgment. I just wished I had used them earlier and more often.

Medical Student

3rd Year