EPEC-Education in Palliative Care and EOL Care (Pediatrics) 2025

Friday, July 25, 2025, 12:00 AM - Monday, July 24, 2028, 12:00 AM


AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (36.00 hours), ABP MOC Part II (36.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (36.00 hours)

Education in Palliative & End-of-Life Care (EPEC) - Pediatrics

Education in Palliative & End-of-Life Care (EPEC) for Pediatrics is a comprehensive adaptation of the EPEC curriculum designed to address the needs of children, their families and pediatric oncology providers and other pediatric clinicians. It was developed by and continues to receive input from experts in several pediatric disciplines as well as parent advocate advisers. It consists of 24 modules in pain and symptom management in palliative care. These topics are taught as a combination of 18 distance learning modules and six in-person conference sessions. See the "Online Content" tab above for the distance learning modules currently available.

Topics include:

1. Pediatric Palliative Care: Why Does it Matter?

2. Child Development

3. Family Centered Care

4. Grief and Bereavement

5. Self-Care for Professionals *In-person training only.

6. Team Collaboration and Effectiveness *In-person training only.

7. Communication and Planning *In-person training only.

8. Ethical and Legal Issues

9. Teaching with EPEC-Pediatrics in the Face-to-Face Setting *In-person training only.

10. Multimodal Analgesia

11. Opioid Selection and Opioid Rotation

12. Neuropathic Pain and Adjuvant Analgesia

13. Procedural Pain

14. Chronic Complex Pain

15. Management of Gastrointestinal Symptoms

16. Management of Respiratory Symptoms

17. Management of Emotional Behavioral Symptoms

18. Management of Neurological Symptoms

19. Treatment of Refractory Distress at End-of-Life

20. Preparation for Imminent Death

21. Integrative Medicine

22. Introduction to Quality Improvement

23. Teaching Pain and Symptom Management *In-person training only.

24. Methadone *Currently part of Module 14: Chronic Complex Pain.

EPEC - Pediatrics distance learning is sponsored by the Office of Continuing Medical Education at the University of California, San Francisco. The target audience for the EPEC distance learning programs is physicians and other health care professionals who are engaged in palliative care education and clinical practice.

See the bottom of this page for more information on credit.

EPEC-Pediatrics Leadership Team

Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD, FAAP
Professor in Pediatrics, University of California at San Francisco
Medical Director, Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative, and Integrative Medicine
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals
UCSF Department of Pediatrics
San Francisco, California, USA
Nothing to disclose

Joanne Wolfe, MD, MPH
Attending Physician, Pediatric Advance Care Team
Faculty Vice President for Faculty Development
Office of Faculty Development, Professionalism and Inclusion
Vice Chair for Faculty Development
Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Nothing to disclose

Joshua Hauser, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Education
Palliative Medicine Fellowship Director
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
Section Chief, Palliative Medicine
Jesse Brown (Chicago) VA Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Nothing to disclose

Stacy Remke, MSW, LICSW, APHSW-CSR
Teaching Specialist Health, Disabilities and Aging
School of Social Work
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Nothing to disclose

Justin Baker, MD, FAAP, FAAHPM
Chief, Division of Quality of Life and Palliative Care
Attending Physician
QoLA Team Medical Director
St Jude Home Care, LLC
Lead, St Jude Global Palliative Care Program
Full Member, Department of Oncology
St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Nothing to disclose

Andrea Postier, PhD, MPH
Professional Researcher
Program Manager, EPEC-Pediatrics
Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative, and Integrative Medicine
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals
UCSF Department of Pediatrics
San Francisco, California, USA
Nothing to disclose

Privacy Statement

Registration is necessary for participation in the distance learning curriculum and includes name, demographic and practice information. This information is for our own internal purposes. We do not share this identifiable information with any outside parties. If aggregated statistics are reported to outside parties, they are free of names and other identifying information. We will not sell, rent, or share your information to any third party. EPEC collects information from our users at several different points on our website.

EPEC uses opt-out email to communicate to our users major updates to the system, system outages, and any changes with our pricing structure or privacy policies.

Copyright
We encourage EPEC Trainers to disseminate EPEC materials for educational purposes. Print and electronic materials are property of EPEC and reproduction, except as permitted in writing by EPEC, is a violation of EPEC intellectual property rights.

© 2003 EPEC, Northwestern University. All rights reserved. © 2025 Regents of the University of California, San Francisco.

Maintenance of Certification
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 36.0 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatric’s (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit. Within 45 days after submitting your evaluation, we will report your MOC points.

Note that each module earns 1.50 MOC points, for a total of 27.00 when all online modules are completed.

Release date: July 25, 2025
Expiration date: July 24, 2028

Fee: $50 per module, or $690 for the full curriculum of 18 modules. Please note at this time that individual modules are NOT available for purchase.

Special Needs or Other Concerns: If you require any special accommodations for a disability which creates a hardship to participating in this activity, or you have questions or concerns about this course, please contact the Office of CME.

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Supplemental Material

Cultural and Linguistic Competency Resources
UC Online Privacy Policy

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Course Number: MED28046

An account in the UCSF CE Portal is required to register. Click SIGN IN in the menu bar and enter your email address or UCSF MyAccess credentials to complete your profile and continue with registration. Your profile must include your degree and profession to be able to claim credit.

Registration Fees

Registration Category	Fees
Individual Modules	$50.00 each
Entire Curriculum	$690.00

In support of improving patient care, the University of California, San Francisco Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physicians: UCSF Office of CME designates this live Activity for a maximum of 36 AMA PRA Category 1™ Credit(s). (Each online module is 1.50 credits.)

 Maintenance of Certification
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.50 MOC points per online module in the American Board of Pediatric’s (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.  Within 45 days after submitting your evaluation, we will report your MOC points.

Advance Practice Registered Nurses and Registered Nurses: For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Physician Assistants: The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) states that the AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM are acceptable for continuing medical education requirements for recertification.

California Pharmacists: The California Board of Pharmacy accepts as continuing professional education those courses that meet the standard of relevance to pharmacy practice and have been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM. If you are a pharmacist in another state, you should check with your state board for approval of this credit.

California Psychologists: The California Board of Psychology recognizes and accepts for continuing education credit courses that are provided by entities approved by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM is acceptable to meeting the CE requirements for the California Board of Psychology. Providers in other states should check with their state boards for acceptance of CME credit.

Cancellation Policy
Cancellations should be made in writing within 7 days of enrollment. Refunds will only be made in the event that technical difficulties prevent completion of the activity, or if no interaction with the material occurred because of inadvertent or mistaken enrollment, or expiration of the activity before the learner had the opportunity to complete it fully. Fees can be transferred to another activity in the case of mistaken enrollment. Please send cancellation requests through our Refund Request form.

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