Advances in Palliative Medicine is a quaternary created by specialists in palliative care. It is addressed to professionals from different branches of medicine who meet terminally ill patients in they daily practice. The journal focuses mainly on education and aims at popularizing palliative medicine – medical speciality recently undergoing dynamic development in Poland Advances in Palliative Medicine contains mainly review papers and selected original papers by Polish authors and reprints of the most interesting foreign publications. Information about medications used in palliative care is published in a special section. In addition the journal notifies of current courses and workshops in the field of palliative medicine. Advances in Palliative Medicine is indexed at Index Copernicus (4.89), Ministry of Education (6 pts.) EMBASE. The electronic copy is the primary one.

Editor-in-Chief: dr n.med. Małgorzata Krajnik