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Palliative care

Course Description: Palliative Care is an elective course designed to establish the skills and foundations of palliative care for individuals suffering from life-threatening illnesses and their families. This course aims to strengthen and develop students' knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes, practices, and research in the field of palliative care. The design of this course allows for the development of collaboration among all disciplines working in the field of palliative care for individuals and their families. .

Credit hours: 3

Objectives of the course :

1. Assessment.
Develop practical strategies to identify and discuss patient concerns, hopes, and goals.
3. Identifying strategies for obtaining palliative care in the dying phase, including the use of life-sustaining technology, honesty in discussing treatment options, and addressing ethical issues that arise in the dying phase.
4. Define the concept and principles of pain management, taking into account the issues related to death and its management.
5. Identify strategies for managing complex care scenarios (e.g., withholding/withdrawing fluids and nutrition at end of life, opioid addiction and sedation, talking to children about death, long-term care, intensive care unit).
Leveraging legal and ethical principles in providing care and promoting informed decision-making with dying patients.
7. Collaborative work within a multidisciplinary palliative care team for a dying patient, fostering positive and effective relationships.

Course outputs :

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the ability to:

Explains the principles of palliative care and the multidimensional nature of suffering, including the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of patients with life-threatening illnesses and their families.
2. Pain and other distressing symptoms are assessed and managed using evidence-based palliative care approaches.
3. Apply ethical and legal principles to support informed decision-making and provide safe end-of-life care.
4. Demonstrates effective communication skills when discussing the diagnosis, care goals, and the patient’s values and end-of-life preferences.
5. Palliative care is provided to different patient groups, medical conditions, and care settings.
6. Collaborates effectively with multidisciplinary healthcare teams to provide coordinated palliative care.
7. Uses digital health technologies to support the monitoring and documentation of symptoms and to coordinate palliative care services.

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Last updated: 2026-07-01