Family Medicine Palliative Case
Activity
e-Learning Module
e-Learning Module
Describe the palliative care approach to care, and who may benefit from it. Assess and manage pain and other common symptoms in palliative care. Understand the interprofessional approach to providing palliative care. Organize care for the actively dying patient and family. Describe an approach to responding to grief, bereavement, and suffering
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Family Medicine Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
Tags
Basic Sciences
Pharmacology
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Family Medicine Rotation
Discipline
Family medicine
Palliative care
Pharmacology
MCC Presentations
Adult Constipation
Delirium
Dyspnea
Generalized Pain Disorders
The Dying Patient
Vomiting and/or Nausea
McMaster Program Competencies
1.1 Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their health through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests.
1.4 Make informed decision about diagnostic and therapeutic interventions based on patient information and preferences, up-to-date scientific evidence, and clinical judgment
3.4 Identify and perform learning activities that address one’s gaps in knowledge, skills, and/or attitudes
3.6 Locate, appraise, and incorporate evidence from research related to patients’ health problems and the provision of healthcare
3.8 Obtain and use information about individual patients and their caregivers, populations of patients, or communities with which patients identify to improve care
3.9 Continually identify, analyze, and implement new knowledge, guidelines, standards, technologies, products, or services that have been demonstrated to improve outcomes
4.2 Participate in the education of patients, families, students, trainees, peers and other health professionals
4.3 Demonstrate sensitivity, honesty, and compassion in difficult conversations, including those about death, end of life, adverse events, bad news, disclosure of errors, and other sensitive topics
6.6 Coordinate patient care within the health care system relevant to a variety of clinical specialties
7.99 Other interprofessional collaboration
MeSH
Bereavement [F01.470.142]
Grief [F01.470.142.110]
Pain Management [E02.745]
Pain Management [N04.590.607.500]
Pain [C10.597.617]
Pain [C23.888.592.612]
Pain [C23.888.646]
Pain [F02.830.816.444]
Palliative Care [E02.760.666]
Palliative Care [N02.421.585.666]
