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In recent years, the development of new educational concepts in palliative care was necessary due to (1) the growing number of institutions providing palliative care, (2) the introduction of the supplementary term palliative medicine and (3) the integration of palliative care modules in other educational programs in medicine and nursing. Already in the 1990s, dedicated professional societies devised learning target and objective catalogues that are widely acknowledged. In German law, these developments became visible with the introduction of the medical degree 'palliative medicine' in 2003 as well in the nursing law of 2004, where palliative care became part of all nursing education. Together with the existing objective catalogues, these laws stimulated recent publication activities of training manuals, which allow efficient and high quality teaching in palliative care. This paper gives an overview on the development and the current situation of education and training in palliative care in the Federal Republic of Germany.

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