- Docente: Marco Cesare Maltoni
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/06
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5709)
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from May 20, 2024 to May 29, 2024
Learning outcomes
To Know the basic philosophy of palliative medicine, its interdisciplinary and interprofessional character (teamwork) and the ethics of care as a global approach to the person with an incurable evolutionary chronic pathology. Know the relative regulations, and how to favor a shared and planned decision-making process within a care relationship, in the light of prognostic factors, and an individualization of care.
Course contents
The course aims to provide students with knowledge of: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF PALLIATIVE CARE 1. History and philosophy 2 Epidemiology 3. Organization 4. Models 5.. Ethics 6. Legislation 7. Research 8. Personalized care: shared care planning. 9. Prognostic factors 10. Principles of remodulation of goals and treatments These basic principles can be preparatory to a personal motivation for future inclusion in palliative care programs and structures, also through knowledge of the new specialization school in "Medicine and palliative care"
Readings/Bibliography
Lectures and power point slides
Italian book Medicine and Palliative Care. Poletto, Milan, 2019
Teaching methods
Interactive frontal lessons
Clinical case discussions
Assessment methods
The level of learning is verified during the course through continuous interviews and interactions. The evaluation is based on the following criteria: 1) competence and detail with which the topic is treated; 2) presentation skills, i.e. how precise is the language used by the candidate to explain the concepts; 3) ability to argue one's ideas, i.e. the consistency and logic with which concepts are exposed and linked together
Teaching tools
Powerpoints
Clinical cases
Office hours
See the website of Marco Cesare Maltoni