B0019 - CURE PALLIATIVE: FONDAMENTI GENERALI

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

Learning outcomes

1. History and philosophy. Past Present Future. 2. Organization and models. Early and end-of-life palliative care 3. Ethics and Legislation. Research in palliative care 4. For personalized care: Prognostic factors

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

Frontal lessons 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