Syllabus Information

5.1. Methodological overview

For the training of students, they are to perform two basic types of activities:

1. Contact activities in large and small groups:

    a. Lectures

    b. Practical Seminars with presentation of clinical cases by the student

2. Non-contact activities, which students, will be the main actor:

    a. Performance of clinical cases by the students

    b. Performing two jobs

5.2. Learning tasks

1. Classroom activities
  a) Lectures (theoretical, practical and discussion content)
  b) Two Seminars with compulsory attendance and signature control
     i) Communication and relationship with the patient and family. The bad news in medicine.
     ii) Case report prepared by students at home and that will present in groups whose composition will take place at the beginning of the course.
 

2. Non-contact activities
  a) Performing of clinical cases for presentation in seminar
  b) Performing two jobs
     i) Original comment, 500-600 words (2 pages printed single-spaced, step 12) to choose a chapter book "Watch Me" by Cicely Saunders. 2011 Castilian translation.
     ii) Comment Free next movie: Wit "Love Life" Nichols Mike, Emma Thompson 2001. Available by teacher.

5.3. Syllabus

Program Theory

Theoretical classes

 Class 1. History and Development of Palliative Care. Principles of Palliative Medicine. General principles of control and evaluation of symptoms.

 Class 2. Basics pain and evaluation. Treatment of mild to moderate pain. Adjuvant drugs for pain management.

 Class 3. Treatment of severe pain. Morphine and alternative opioids. Strategy in difficult pain.

 Class 4. General problems: anorexia and cachexia, weakness. Nutrition and hydration. Digestive problems: mouth care, evacuation disorders, opioid-induced constipation, nausea and vomiting, intestinal obstruction.

 Class 5. Respiratory problems: breathlessness, cough and hemoptysis. Neurological problems: delirium and other symptoms. Emergency in Palliative Medicine.

 Class 6 Palliative Care in late-stage organ failure.

Class 7. Ethical aspects of care at the end of life. Euthanasia and palliative care. Aragón death deserving law.

Class 8. Management agony. Situation last hours or days. Palliative Sedation. Suffering and spiritual care.

Textbook support

Manual Palliative Medicine
Carlos Centeno, Marcos Gomez, Maria Nabal, Antonio Pascual
Editorial Eunsa, 2009
approximately 21 €

Bibliography: BOOKS IN SPANISH OF INTEREST FOR TRAINING PALLIATIVE CARE

 1994 M. Gómez Las Palmas. Palliative care and psychosocial intervention in terminally ill
 1995 Astudillo W, Mendinueta C, E. Astudillo Pamplona. Care of the terminally ill and care for his family
 1995 González Baron M Ordonez A, J Feliu, Zamora P, E. Espinosa Madrid. Treaty of palliative medicine and supportive care in cancer patient
 1996 Gómez Batiste X, J Planas Sunday, Roca Casas J, P. Viladiú Barcelona. Palliative Care in Oncology
 1997 E. Lopez Imedio Madrid. Continuing Education. Paliativos2 care
 1998 M. Gómez Sancho Madrid. How to give bad news in Medicine
 1998 E. Lopez Imedio Madrid. Palliative Care Nursing
 1998 Centeno C.Valladolid. Introduction to Palliative Medicine
 1998 M. Gómez Sancho Madrid. Palliative Medicine. The response to a need
 1999 M. Gómez Sancho Madrid. Palliative Medicine in Latin Culture
 1999 F Lopez Lara, C. Centeno Valladolid. Updates in Palliative Medicine

BOOKS IN ENGLISH

 2005. Oxford Testbook of Palliative Medicine. Dr. Nathan Cherny et al.

www.oxfordmedicine.com

5.4. Course planning and calendar

Schedule sessions and presentation of works
 
Presentation of work:
Jobs are sent by e-mail to emiliog@unizar.es before the final exam.
The delivery date will be agreed with the students at the beginning of the course.


Schedule training sessions and seminars

It will be held by groups and dates are assigned when the number of students is known.

5.5. Bibliography and recommended resources

• Gómez, M. Cuidados paliativos e intervención psicosocial en enfermos terminales. Las Palmas, 1994
• Astudillo Alarcón, Wilson. Medicina paliativa : cuidados del enfermo en el final de la vida y atención a su familia / Wilson Astudillo Alcorcón, Carmen Mendinueta Aguirre, Edgar Astudillo Alarcón . - 5ª ed. corr. y aum. Pamplona : EUNSA, 2008
• Tratado de medicina paliativa y tratamiento de soporte del paciente con cáncer / M. González Barón ... [et al.] . - 2ª ed. Buenos Aires ; Madrid [etc.] : Editorial Médica Panamericana, cop. 2007
• Gómez Batiste X, Planas Domingo J, Roca Casas J, Viladiú P. Cuidados paliativos en oncología. Barcelona, 1996
• López Imedio, Eulalia. Formación continuada. Cuidados paliativos 2 Madrid, 1997
• Gómez Sancho, Marcos. Cómo dar las malas noticias en medicina / Marcos Gómez Sancho . - 3ª ed. rev. y amp, [Madrid] : Arán, D.L. 2006
• López Imedio, Eulalia. Enfermería en cuidados paliativos / Eulalia López Imedio Madrid : Editorial Médica Panamericana, D.L. 1998
• Centeno Cortés, Carlos. Introducción a la medicina paliativa / Carlos Centeno Cortés Valladolid : Junta de Castilla y León, Consejería de Sanidad y Bienestar Social, 1998
• Gómez Sancho, Marcos. Medicina paliativa : la respuesta a una necesidad / Marcos Gómez Sancho Madrid : Arán, D.L. 1998
• Gómez Sancho, M. Medicina paliativa en la cultura latina. Madrid: 1999
• López Lara F, Centeno C. Actualizaciones en medicina paliativa. Valladolid, 1999
• Oxford Testbook of Palliative Medicine. Dr. Nathan Cherny et al. 2005