Young Researchers’ Day 2025
The Scientific Days of the French National Platform for End-of-Life Research were held on December 15 and 16, 2025, in Paris. The first day was dedicated to PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers.
The themes of the different sessions included: palliative care in France today and in the future; the role of physicians in palliative care; and the place of relatives in palliative care and in the experience of bereavement. The day concluded with a roundtable discussion and a film debate.
Session 1: Palliative care in France: today and tomorrow
Obstacles to the implementation of continuous sedative practices in the terminal palliative phase at home: a realistic review of the literature
Gaëtan PITON GERMES, hospital practitioner, Unité et équipe mobile de soins palliatifs du Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) de Brest, Master 2 student at Université Pari-Est Créteil, Laboratoire Epicene U1219 (Inserm - Université de Bordeaux).
When innovation meets care: how new therapies are redefining pediatric palliative approaches in the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy according to French medical specialists
Marie-Liesse GUENEE, master 2 student at Université Paris-Est Créteil, Equipe de soins palliatifs pédiatriques, de ressources et d'accompagnement (ESPPéRA), Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon.
Session 2: The role of physicians in palliative care
When you understand what it's for, the pill goes down better: DEprescribing in PALliative cancer care: patients' perceptions - A qualitative study
Simon PRAMPART-FAUVET, master 2 student at Université Paris Est Créteil, laboratory methodS in Patient-centered outcomes & HEalth ResEarch (SPHERE) UMR 1246 Universités de Nantes et Tours - Inserm.
You can learn to recognize and announce a death: hybrid training for medical students
Daphné PRIEUR-DREVON, MD, university clinical supervisor - hospital assistant, Master 2 student at Université Paris Est Créteil, Institut des neurosciences cellulaires et intégratives (INCI), UPR 3212.
Session 3: The place of loved ones in palliative care and the bereavement experience
Metaphor in Flemish parents' accounts of perinatal loss
Eline PUT, PhD student at the University of Lille, savoirs, textes, langages (STL) UMR 8163 - CNRS laboratory
APSY-SED study: Psychological adjustment of relatives and healthcare professionals during the introduction of continuous deep sedation
Marie LOCATELLI, doctoral fellow at Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de psychopathologie et processus de santé (LPPS - UR4057).
Round table
Exploring Different Career Paths After a PhD
Joaquim PRUD'HOMM, MD, PhD, contract hospital practitioner in an acute geriatric unit at the Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) de Rennes, post-doctoral fellow at UR12 (INED), Aubervilliers.
Rozenn LE BERRE, lecturer at the Centre for Medical Ethics, Catholic University of Lille
Sofia CARRION-FALGARONA, consultant at Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris.
François CHAUMIER, PU-PH in palliative medicine at the University of Tours, head of the mobile palliative care team 37 at the Centre hospitalier régional universitaire (CHRU) de Tours, researcher in the methodS in Patient-centered outcomes & HEatlth REsearch (SPHERE) team, UMR 1246 Inserm - Université de Nantes - Université de Tours.
Screening and discussion
Screening and discussion of the documentary Vivre c'est vieillir
Blandine DELCROIX, author and director
Aline CHAMAHIAN, senior lecturer in sociology, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Sciences Po Aix, attached to Mesopolhis; associate researcher at CeRIES, ULR 3589 University of Lille.