B0019 - CURE PALLIATIVE: FONDAMENTI GENERALI

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5709)

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