ABSTRACT
Under the Cancer Control Act, the government has developed a comprehensive cancer strategy, which aims to promote basic awareness about palliative care among physicians involved in cancer care. In 2008, “palliative care training for physicians involved in cancer” was held for the purpose of acquiring basic palliative care. Since 2009, the Palliative care Subcommittee of the Osaka Prefectural Cancer medical treatment cooperation meeting adjusted the schedule of the palliative care training in Osaka Prefecture, and established an instructor registration and dispatch adjustment system. In the 10-year period, we supported a total of 357 palliative care training sessions, and as of March 2018, 8416 physicians and 2674 staff members completed the palliative care training session. In Osaka Prefecture, the instructors who completed the training program for basic education in palliative care and psycho-oncology were invited to cooperate each year, and 142 physical physicians and 64 psychiatric physicians were registered, and five medical doctors and two psychiatric doctors were dispatched to each palliative care training session. The lecturer dispatch system was held smoothly by the palliative care training in Osaka Prefecture, and it seems to have contributed to the increase in the number of trainees who completed the training.