|
|
|
Nov 25, 2024
|
|
2019-2020 School of Medicine Bulletin
|
MEDI G770 - Adult and Pediatric Palliative Care
Credits: 2
This course provides opportunities to develop knowledge and skills in the comprehensive care of patients and their families during various stages of life-limiting illness. Students will identify periods of transition in illness, as well as appropriate interventions. Communication skills, decision-making, care coordination, family support interventions and management of symptoms will be emphasized. The course will include didactic and clinical time with members of the interdisciplinary team (nursing, social work, chaplaincy, therapies). Students will engage in assessment, management recommendations for, and follow-up of patients, as well as a range of activities examining the clinical, ethical and research aspects of comprehensive palliative and end-of-life care.
|
|
|
Twitter
YouTube
RSS Feeds