6th Annual U.S. Celebration of World Hospice & Palliative Care Day — On Demand


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Date & Location
Thursday, December 11, 2025, 8:00 AM - Wednesday, June 30, 2027, 11:00 PM

Specialties
Specialties - General and Family Practice, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Hospitalist, Integrative Medicine, Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology, Nursing, Pain Medicine, Patient or Caregiver, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work

Overview

Access to palliative care is a basic right and a critical component of universal health coverage, ensuring the highest attainable standard of health for individuals with serious illness and their caregivers. This complimentary on-demand program features recordings from the MSK 6th Annual U.S. Celebration of World Hospice & Palliative Care Day, held virtually on October 6–7, 2025.

Co-sponsored by the MSK Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Supportive Care Service, this annual conference serves as a global platform to foster cross-cultural community building, scientific dissemination, and experiential wisdom sharing. Multiprofessional and multidisciplinary leaders at the forefront of research, policy, and clinical practice explore a broad range of topics across the domains of palliative care, including pain and symptom management, psychological and spiritual care, cultural humility and ethics, evidence-based advocacy, care for historically minoritized and marginalized populations, and social science perspectives in serious illness. Throughout the program, the voices of individuals with lived experience of serious illness are intentionally centered and amplified.

Highlights of this innovative and impactful program include:

  • Specialized sessions led by experts in traditional and integrative medicine, end-of-life care, surgical palliative care, and pediatric palliative care

  • A dedicated patient and caregiver perspective session, offering powerful insight into lived experiences of serious illness.

  • The Palliative Story Exchange, an inclusive forum in which interprofessional palliative care clinicians share experiences and reflections.

  • Global perspectives on progress in palliative care, highlighting advances since the adoption of the 2014 World Health Assembly (WHA) Resolution 67.19 on Palliative Care.

  • Expert-led presentations and discussions from interprofessional and international faculty addressing the impact of palliative care on patients, families, and communities worldwide — advancing both clinical practice and scholarly inquiry

A complete list of presentations and faculty is available in the brochure from the live conference.

This on-demand program is complimentary and available to all.


Objectives
At the conclusion of this conference, learners will be able to:

  1. Apply interdisciplinary and interprofessional approaches to address patient and family needs across palliative care domains to improve quality of life and alleviate suffering.
  2. Address health disparities in hospice and palliative care with actionable methods to promote social justice.
  3. Describe advocacy efforts to expand access to, and quality of, palliative care globally.
  4. Describe evidence-based approaches and advances in symptom management, serious illness communication, bereavement, spiritual care, end-of-life care, and advance care planning in adult and pediatric populations.
  5. Explore and incorporate culturally appropriate palliative care interventions that are sensitive to individual beliefs, values, and practices across resource settings.
  6. Describe spiritual and existential considerations throughout the serious illness trajectory and employ best practices using interdisciplinary and interprofessional models.

Registration

This on-demand conference is complimentary and available to all. Access to the course content does requires registration. Once registration is confirmed, all materials, including relevant financial disclosures and instructions for claiming credit, can be found under the 'Course Content' tab. The PDFs and Videos, as well as the opportunity to claim credit, is available through June 30, 2027. To enroll, please click the 'Register' tab at the top of the page.


Accreditation

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center designates this enduring material for a maximum of 11.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABIM MOC Recognition Statement

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 11.25 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.


Recorded/Review Date: October 6-7, 2025 | Original Release Date: December 11, 2025 | Termination Date: June 30, 2027