Utah Certificate of Palliative Education (UCoPE) - FALL

Tuesday, September 29, 2026, 7:30 AM - Friday, October 2, 2026, 5:00 PM MT, Williams Building, Salt Lake City, UT


AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (28.00 hours), Non-Physician Participation AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (28.00 hours)

UCoPE is a four-day intensive course designed for health care providers who want to improve their generalist palliative care skills. This four-day course involves a combination of communication and symptom-management skills training in an intimate setting, with a faculty to student ratio between 2-3:1. With facilitators from pediatrics, internal medicine, oncology, psychiatry, and geriatrics, attendees will be exposed to best palliative care practices in a variety of clinical settings, including the ICU, outpatient clinic, the emergency department, hospital and hospice. There is a shortage of trained hospice and palliative medicine providers in Utah for all health care disciplines from nursing to medicine to pharmacy. UCoPE is designed to address this critical shortage by providing an intensive course aimed at improving generalist palliative care skills for both adult and pediatric patients with serious illness. This interprofessional training certificate is the first of its kind in the intermountain region. Our goal is to increase the access to palliative care trained health care providers throughout Utah.

1. Summarize up-to-date knowledge on best practices in hospice medicine and palliative care.
2. Analyze personal communication skills, especially difficult conversations around goals of care in serious illness and at the end of life.
3. Develop confidence in managing basic pain and symptoms of chronically ill patients and those at end of life.

In person registration only.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Intermountain Health, Intermountain Children's Health, the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine, and Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Intermountain Health is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  

AMA Credit

Intermountain Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 28 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s).™  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  

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