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Background: Equipping all interprofessional clinicians with foundational palliative care competencies is essential to address the complex needs of the growing number of adults living with chronic, progressive, or life-threatening serious illness. There is a paucity of high-quality, open-access primary palliative care curricula and to the best of our knowledge, none designed interprofessionally., Objective: As an interprofessional team, we aimed at designing and evaluating an interactive primary palliative care education curriculum for interprofessional clinicians and trainees., Design: We developed a curriculum that includes nine 55-minute interactive modules facilitated by two interprofessional clinicians in small groups of 8-12 interprofessional learners., Setting/subjects: Thirty-two practicing interprofessional clinicians from the San Francisco Bay Area enrolled in the pilot., Measurements: Pilot curriculum evaluation included electronic surveys pre- and post-module and at completion of the full curriculum., Results: The final evaluation response rate was 44%. Ninety-three percent of survey respondents rated the curriculum's quality as "very good" or "excellent"; 86% of respondents felt the curriculum was "extremely" or "very useful" to their clinical practice. Comparing pre- and post-module survey data, statistically significant ( p  < 0.01) improvements in learner confidence were seen for each of the 25 curriculum learning objectives with an average improvement of 2.8 points., Conclusions: The curriculum was well received and was associated with an increase in learner confidence. This novel, flexible, and tuition-free curriculum fills an important educational gap and can be used to equip frontline, interprofessional clinicians with the core palliative care knowledge, skills, and attitudes to take the best possible care of seriously ill patients and families., Competing Interests: No competing financial interests exist., (© Brook A. Calton et al., 2022; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.)

As the COVID-19 pandemic wears on, its psychological, emotional, and existential toll continues to grow and indeed may now rival the physical suffering caused by the illness. Patients, caregivers, and health-care workers are particularly at risk for trauma responses and would be well served by trauma-informed care practices to minimize both immediate and long-term psychological distress. Given the significant overlap between the core tenets of trauma-informed care and accepted guidelines for the provision of quality palliative care (PC), PC teams are particularly well poised to both incorporate such practices into routine care and to argue for their integration across health systems. We outline this intersection to highlight the uniquely powerful role PC teams can play to reduce the long-term psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic., (Copyright © 2020 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)