This curriculum includes 8, 2-hour modules, consisting of PowerPoint slides sets and an extensive 155 page teaching guide with in depth notes on how to teach the curriculum and a discussion of particular challenges that arise in teaching specific content areas. The teaching guide also includes support material such as bibliographies. While originally designed as a curriculum that physician faculty could use to teach residents in training, the content and teaching methods have also been used successfully to teach other disciplines in the basics of palliative care. Modules titles: Death and Dying in the USA, Pain Management, Communicating with Patients and Families, Making Difficult Decisions, Non-Pain Symptom Management, Venues and Systems of Care, Psychiatric issues and Spirituality, and Instituting Change. The book, Palliative Care Perspectives, by the corresponding author, was written in parallel to this course. The on-line version through Growth House serves as background reading for the course in addition to other referenced material. This curriculum arose from a faculty development project for physicians, funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through the Stanford Faculty Development Program.