Dr. Moyano describes the situation of palliative care education in Colombia as follows:

“[education] opportunities are scarce. There are basically … in the big cities … probably two … or three places in the whole country where training in palliative care can be obtained. These are one-year programmes targeted on medical specialists in different areas; usually, most people who decide to do palliative care are anaesthesiologists or family care physicians or oncologists. Training centres in palliative care for nurses, for instance, do not exist in the country. Most of the time nurses that want to be trained in palliative care are incorporated [to the palliative care team] and in an empirical way we train them by working alongside us. But, there is a great deficiency in specialized palliative care training centres. The two biggest programmes are ours; this is the Santa Fe de Bogotá Foundation programme; it is a one-year programme. We train two people per year: one during the first semester and the other one during the second semester. And the other programme is the one at the National Cancer Institute, which is also a one-year programme that trains two people per year, one person per semester. Undergraduate education in palliative care is also extremely poor. Some time ago we worked towards including some palliative care experience in the curriculum of advanced medicine and nursing students, but our efforts did not have any impact”²¹