Project description

End of Life Law for Clinicians (ELLC) is a free training program for medical practitioners, medical students, nurses, and allied and other health professionals about the law relating to end of life decision-making. It seeks to improve clinicians’ knowledge and awareness of the law at end of life and support their delivery of quality end-of-life and palliative care.

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Learning options

ELLC offers courses (online training modules) on palliative and end-of-life law which include the following 13 topics:

  • The role of law in end of life care
  • Capacity and consent to medical treatment
  • Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment
  • Advance care planning and advance care directives
  • Substitute decision-making for medical treatment
  • Legal protection for administering pain and symptom relief
  • Children and end of life decision-making
  • Futile or non-beneficial treatment
  • Emergency treatment for adults
  • Managing conflict
  • Voluntary assisted dying
  • Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples and end of life law
  • Inclusive end of life decision-making with people from diverse populations.

ELLC is complemented by End of Life Law in Australia, a resource that provides accurate, relevant information for the community about the law at end of life in each State and Territory.

Target audience

A course is available for:

  • medical practitioners and medical students
  • nurses
  • allied health and other health professionals

Funder

Australian Department of Health and Aged Care

Cost for participant

Nil

Registration required

Yes

For further information

To learn more, download a free ELLC brochure (264kb pdf) or the ELLC Training Curriculum 2023-2026 (284kb pdf). Register at the End of Life Law for Clinicians training portal.

E-mail: endoflifelaw@qut.edu.au

End of Life Law in Australia website

Last updated 06 December 2023