Curriculum Objective
Objective
Clerkship Objectives
Understand the symptoms sometimes seen during end-of-life care and the basic principles of their management (e.g., pain, dyspnea, nausea and vomiting, anorexia, fatigue, depression, delirium, constipation).

Curriculum Block

Clerkship / Internal Medicine Rotation
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AFMC Entrustable Professional Activities
5. Formulate, communicate and implement management plans
Curriculum Block
Clerkship Internal Medicine Rotation
Discipline
Internal Medicine Palliative care
MCC Presentations
The Dying Patient
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. 2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations. 2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare 2.4 Apply principles of epidemiological sciences to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resource allocation, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations 1.5 Develop and carry out patient management plans 2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care.
MeSH
Patient Care Management [N04.590] Patient Care [N02.421.585] Palliative Care [N02.421.585.666]

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