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| Course name | Palliative Medicine |
| Course ID | 12.0-WL-LekAM-PalME- 22 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences |
| Field of study | WLiNZ - oferta ERASMUS / Medical |
| Education profile | - |
| Level of studies | Long-cycle studies leading to MS degree (6 years) |
| Beginning semester | winter term 2023/2024 |
| Semester | 10 |
| ECTS credits to win | 3 |
| Course type | obligatory |
| Teaching language | polish |
| Author of syllabus |
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| The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
| Lecture | 15 | 1 | - | - | Credit with grade |
| Zajęcia kliniczne | 30 | 2 | - | - | Credit with grade |
The goal of the course is to make students familiar with rules of palliative and supportive care, pathophysiology, clinical assessment and treatment of pain, dyspnea and other symptoms in patients diagnosed with cancer and other chronic diseases; submitting basic rules of nursing in patients diagnosed with chronic diseases, including prevention and treatment of pressure sores, skin, oral cavity, colostomy; discussion of psychological, social and spiritual problems of patients diagnosed with advanced diseases and their families; introduction of rules of palliative care provided at home, stationary palliative care units (stationary hospices), and in palliative care out–patient clinics; introduction of basic rules of communication with patients and families; presentation of up – to – date clinical studies in palliative medicine; gaining by students of basic skills necessary for in conducting clinical trials, integration of knowledge and clinical skills with scientific evidence.
Knowledge on anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, propaedeutics of surgery, propaedeutics of paediatrics, propaedeutics of internal diseases, pathomorphology, and radiology.
1. Qualifying patients to palliative care. Forms and possibilities of care for patients.
2. Pathophysiology, clinical assessment and treatment of pain, dyspnea and other somatic symptoms.
3. Diagnosis and treatment of emergencies in palliative medicine.
4. Pathophysiology and treatment of the most frequent psychiatric disorders: cognitive impairment, anxiety and depression.
5. Nursing of mouth, skin sores and colostomy.
6. Prophylaxis and treatment of pressure sores.
7. Routes of drug administration – pharmacokinetics, rules of drug preparation and their mixtures, limitations of therapy and drug interactions.
8. Palliative care in non–malignant diseases.
9. Quality of life assessment of patients and families (caregivers), diagnosis of their needs and quality of care assessment.
10. Rules of communication with patients and their families (caregivers).
11. Rules of breaking news regarding disease and prognosis to patients and families.
12. Ethical and law aspects of palliative care: renouncement from causal treatment, futile therapy, sedation, euthanasia and assisted suicide.
13. Rules of cooperation in interdisciplinary therapeutic team.
Lectures in the form of multimedia presentations.
Seminars are held in 10–students groups in the form of multimedia presentations and discussions.
Laboratory classes and workshops are held in 5–students groups in palliative care outpatient clinic, outpatient pain clinic, and palliative care unit.
| Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Conditions for passing the course:
The review test comprises at least 50 questions. To pass the review test student must score at least 60% positive answers. When scores:
- from 0% – 59% gets unsatisfactory (2.0) and fails the review test
- from 60% – 67% gets satisfactory (3.0)
- from 68% – 75% gets fairly good (3.5)
- from 76% – 84% gets good (4.0)
- from 85% – 93% gets better than good (4.5)
- from 94% – 100% gets very good (5.0)
The final grade is an arithmetic mean of grades of all forms in the subject. The results of the weighted mean are determined according to the principle: mean 3.25 is the final mark of 3.5; mean 3.75 is the final score of 4.0; mean 4.25 is the final score of 4.5; the mean of 4.75 is the final score of 5.0.
Regular class attendance is a student obligation – presence on all classes.
Two excused absences are allowed, however, student is obliged to make up missed classes in the form of preparation of the topics of the classes, in the case of practical classes they should be held with another group or on individual case with an indicated teacher.
1. Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine (5 edn) Nathan Cherny (ed.), Marie Fallon (ed.),
Stein Kaasa (ed.), Russell K. Portenoy (ed.), David C. Currow (ed.)
Online ISBN: 9780191765896. Print ISBN: 9780199656097
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015. On line to download
2. Palliative Care Formulary. Eighth Edition. Andrew Wilcock (ed), Paul Howard (ed), Sarah Charlesworth (ed.) Pharmaceutical Press 2022
Modified by dr Justyna Mazurek-Popczyk (last modification: 25-05-2023 21:03)
