About Essential Fast Facts
Prepared by:
- Sean Marks, MD; Current Fast Fact Editor (Medical College of Wisconsin)
- Drew Rosielle, MD; Past Fast Fact Editor (University of Minnesota)
- David E. Weissman, MD; Founding Fast Fact Editor (Palliative Care Education, LLC)
About Fast Facts & Concepts
Fast Facts and Concepts provide concise, practical, peer-reviewed, and evidence-based summaries on key palliative care topics important to clinicians and trainees caring for patients facing serious illness. They were started in 2000 by Eric Warm MD as a palliative care teaching tool for generalist clinicians at the University of Cincinnati. They were subsequently adopted as a standard feature of the National End-of-Life Residency Education Project, D Weissman, MD PI, (funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation). Until 2014, Fast Facts published by the End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center (EPERC; now closed) at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Since 2015, PCNOW has hosted Fast Facts and Concepts as part of their mission to promote palliative care education to generalist clinicians.