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Track A · Modules 1 to 4

Foundations. Start with the ground you stand on.

What the role is, how people die, the systems you will work beside, and how to be present.

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Foundations in 15 seconds

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  1. A person who stays. What an end-of-life doula is, and is not.
  2. How people die. What is usual, and when to call the team.
  3. The system beside you. Palliative care, hospice, and who does what.
  4. Listening first. Presence, silence and cultural humility.
  5. Foundations. Start with the ground you stand on. qualitydeath.com/training/foundations

The modules

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Module 1

What an end-of-life doula is, and is not

The role, its limits, how it differs from hospice, chaplaincy and social work, and what the evidence does and does not show.

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Module 2

How people die: what is usual, and when to call the team

The illness trajectories, the last weeks and days, and the fixed rule: observe, comfort, tell the team.

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Module 3

Palliative care and hospice: the system you will work beside

Who is on each team, what the Medicare hospice benefit is, and where a doula does and does not fit.

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Module 4

Communication, presence and cultural humility

Listening without fixing, silence, hard questions, interpreters, and trauma-informed practice.

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Where this comes from

Each module lists its own sources, with the date each was checked (checked 2026-09-29).

This training is education, not a credential. Finishing it does not certify, license or accredit anyone, and it does not qualify anyone for any job or payment. A doula is a non-clinical helper and does not give medical, nursing, legal, tax or financial advice. Quality Death has not vetted every program or organization named on these pages. In crisis or thinking about suicide, call or text 988. In an emergency, call 911.