LF:aVLPP11Xpp Palliative Care - Course Information
aVLPP11Xpp Palliative Care - pregraduation practice
Faculty of Medicineautumn 2022
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1.2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- MUDr. Ondřej Sláma, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Lukáš Pochop (lecturer)
MUDr. Jiří Šedo, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Jitka Skládaná (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- MUDr. Ondřej Sláma, Ph.D.
Comprehensive Cancer Care Department – Institutions shared with the Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute – Faculty of Medicine - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- aVLPP11Xpp/Blue_January: No timetable has been entered into IS.
aVLPP11Xpp/Orange_September: No timetable has been entered into IS. - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- aVLFA0822p Pharmacology II - lec. && aVLSP03X Individual project && aVLPX102t Vacational training GYN/OBST && aVLVL101 Internal Medicine && aVLPD1033c Pediatrics III - practice && ( aVLPG1022c Gynecol. and obst. II- pract. || aVLPG9X1 Gynecol. and obst. ) && aVLOZ1044 Public Health IV && aVLCH091 Surgery && aVLCH9X33c Surgery III - practice && aVLPX102t Vacational training GYN/OBST && aVLAM9X1p Intensive care med. - lect. && aVLIN9X22p Infectious diseases II && aVLNE9X1p Neurology - lecture && aVLON9X1p Clinical oncology - lec. && aVLPY9X1p Psychiatry - lect. && ( aVLKB091 Clinical Biochemistry || aVLFP091 Physiology and path.of newborn || aVLAL091 Anaesthes. and Treat. of Pain || aVLDO091 Paediatric Oncology || aVLKF101 Clinical Pharmacology || aVLKF091 Clinical Pharmacology )
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- General Medicine (programme LF, M-GM)
- General Medicine (eng.) (programme LF, M-VL)
- Course objectives
- The subject Palliative care will provide in the form of pre-graduate practice a clinical experience of complex palliative care for a patient with advanced life-threatening illness (e.g. cancer, end-stage chronic renal failure, neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS, multiple sclerosis and dementia syndrome). The practice will be implemented in specialized palliative care facilities: inpatient hospice, mobile/home hospice and ambulance of palliative medicine.
- Learning outcomes
- The student will be able to:
• communicate effectively about the needs and goals of care at the end of life, with the patient and his family
• mitigate the physical and psychological symptoms of advanced disease: e.g. pain, shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, anxiety, depression, delirium
• schedule organizational providing of palliative care using other services (cooperation with a social worker, psychologist, clergyman, bed and home hospice) - Syllabus
- • Basic principles of palliative care in clinical practice
- • Clinical and ethical dilemmas in the care of end-of-life patients and their solutions
- • Legal aspects of patient care at the end of life
- • End-of-life communication with the patient (principles of supportive communication, reporting of adverse messages, serious diagnosis and prognosis discussions, planning of care)
- • Palliative management of the most common symptoms of advanced disease: pain, shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, anxiety, depression, delirium
- • Principles of multidisciplinary teamwork in palliative care
- • Organization of palliative care in the Czech Republic
- Literature
- recommended literature
- VOLANDES, Angelo E. Umění rozhovoru o konci života. Translated by Lenka Kapsová, Illustrated by Petra Josefína Stibitzová. 1. vydání. V Praze: Cesta domů, 2015, 203 stran. ISBN 9788088126034. info
- not specified
- SLÁMA, Ondřej, Ladislav KABELKA and Jiří VORLÍČEK. Paliativní medicína pro praxi. 2., nezměn. vyd. Praha: Galén, 2011, 363 s. ISBN 9788072628490. info
- Teaching methods
- • Interactive seminar • Clinical internship • Attending a meeting of the Musetidisciplinary Hospice Team
- Assessment methods
- • Credit (credit terms: 100% participation in practice, written case study/case studies)
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 18.
- Enrolment Statistics (autumn 2022, recent)
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