Abstract
It is recommended to provide the palliative care from an initial stage of treatment since "Cancer Control Act" had been enforced in 2007. We believe it is necessary to enhance education of palliative care in University and offer information to doctors for dissemination and awareness rising. Moreover, we need to put the effort for improvement of palliative care education and its internship system. The act of educating palliative care has gradually heightened in school of medicine. Toho University school of medicine also provides the lectures of team medical care, palliative care team, palliative care, and psycho-oncology. However, the lecture contents about the palliative care are various as they are left to the policy of each teacher. We believed there is a necessity to have systematic actions which include examination of the lecture form and cooperation between teachers. In this research, author requested 4th grade university students to answer questionnaire during a course of palliative care team. According to the result, over 60% of them were interested in palliative care, yet many of them also answered having unclear view of it. It is necessary to prepare and organize curriculum of palliative care based on their opinions.
