Palliative care Courses and Certifications

Certificate in Integrative Palliative Care - 3

Explores how complementary therapies—from naturopathy, yoga, and energy healing to acupuncture, music, nutrition, and spirituality—can enrich holistic palliative care.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• Available until Oct 9, 2026
• Free Online Course

AICTE;  Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthan

Yoga Volunteers for Palliative Care - Part 2

Train as volunteers using yoga-based palliative care practices for older adults, including chair yoga, pranayama, relaxation, and meditation.

• Swayam
• 16 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

OPENPediatrics

Palliative Pain and Symptom Management

Learn to assess and manage pain, opioid-use barriers, and non-pain symptoms in palliative care, including fatigue, dyspnea, nausea, and appetite loss.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Comics and Compassion - Support at Every Stage of Illness - Episode 4

Discover how palliative care differs from hospice and improves patient quality of life through the unique perspective of a physician-artist who combines medicine with graphic storytelling.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

OPENPediatrics

Pediatric Palliative Care Transport by Harriett Nelson for OPENPediatrics

Explore pediatric palliative care transport, including memory-making and research on helping critically ill children return home from the ICU before death.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Supporting Families and Caregivers

45 ratings at Coursera

This course takes a deep dive into the challenges families and friends of a patient with serious illness face and how you can care for and support them as a provider, social worker or family friend.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

舒缓医学

本课程是一门生命教育课程，给予学生关于面对生命期有限患者及家属照顾的知识，提高面对死亡的能力、人文素养和人文医学能力

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

CY Cergy Paris Université

Se former aux soins palliatifs

Nous pouvons tous contribuer à mieux accompagner les personnes fragilisées par la maladie grave et la fin de vie : formez-vous aux soins palliatifs

• France Université Numerique
• 15 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

向死而生在中国安宁疗护人文与伦理的本土化实践

探讨中国安宁疗护中的人文关怀、伦理议题与本土化实践。

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Traditional herbal medicine in supportive cancer care: From alternative to integrative

92 ratings at Coursera

Learn to use traditional herbal medicine in supportive cancer care: Chinese, Ayurvedic, Middle Eastern and European traditions, patient communication, and building an integrative oncology program.

• Coursera
• 14 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Cinematic Health

Job Demand, Essential Technical Skills, & Dementia Care

Learn specialized CNA skills through story-driven scenarios: oxygen therapy assistance, specimen collection, diabetic foot care, dementia communication strategies, and hospice support for aging patients and their families.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

41 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Death and medicine: postponement and promise, helps you to explore the extent to which death and dying in western societies are medical events and what aspects of death and dying ...

• OpenLearn
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Equip Aged Care Learning Modules

1 rating

Equip Aged Care Learning is designed for personal care workers, nurses, allied health professionals, and volunteers working in the aged care sector.

• Independent
• 1-2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Caring for adults

53 ratings at OpenLearn

Caring for adults is an introductory course for anyone in a caring role, either paid or unpaid. It builds on what you already know to give you a better understanding of your role as a carer. It ...

• OpenLearn
• 15 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

An introduction to death, dying and grief

17 ratings at OpenLearn

Explore interesting and challenging ideas around death, dying and grief. This free course, An introduction to death, dying and grief, invites you to think more deeply about death and dying and ...

• OpenLearn
• 7 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate