Nordic Specialist Course in Palliative Medicine

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1 Nordic Specialist Course in Module January 2016, Helsinki, Finland Park Hotel Käpylä, Pohjolankatu 38 THE IMMINENTLY DYING (4,5 days) Aim: To acknowledge the special needs of the dying patient and his or her family; including religious, cultural and spiritual aspects. The influence of nearby death on suffering and family structure. Topics: The dying process. Pharmacological treatment of the dying patient. Ethical aspects, hydration, withdrawal of treatment, psychological problems in patient and relatives. Social needs. Role of family in the treatment. Role of volunteers. How to handle young patients and children. Cultural problems, including other cultures, cultural and ethnic differences. Coping with emotional stress in yourself and your staff. Spiritual aspects in life and death. Follow-up in bereavement and bereavement support. Symptom control and the need of palliative sedation. How to organize the treatment of dying persons optimally (including different choices). B. AUDIT (0,5 day) Aim: Based on an understanding of the principles of quality control, to be able to perform a clinical audit in palliative care. Topics: The principles and practice of quality control and audit. Differences and similarities between audit and research. Audit especially in the palliative care. Norwegian Association for Danish Association for Swedish Association for Finnish Association for Icelandic Association for Palliative Care Course secretariat: Secretary Ragnhild Green Helgås, The Cancer Department, St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, N-7006 Trondheim, Norway. Phone: ragnhild.g.helgas@ntnu.no

2 Program Coffee every day at Monday 25 January THE IMMINENTLY DYING DYING PATIENT Introduction, presentation End of life care. Symptoms of the dying patient. Loss history. Tony O Brien Lunch How to organize end of life care Tony O Brien Death in different cultures Welcome to Finland Dinner Tuesday 26 January BEREAVEMENT AND SPRITUALITY Death as psychological phenomenon Pirjo Juhela Death for a muslim Anas Hajjar Death in different cultures Lunch Bereavement and spirituality Eija Mäkinen Group work: bereavement and spirituality Eija Mäkinen, 2

3 Wednesday 27 January ETHICAL AND CLINICAL DILEMMAS Palliative sedation Katri Hamunen Group work /Cases: palliative sedation Katri Hamunen, Lunch Free time, sightseeing tour Hydration, nutrition and the dying patient Reino Pöyhiä Group work/cases: hydration and nutrition Reino Pöyhiä, Thursday 28 January HOW DO WE MANAGE OURSELVES Helping the helper Seppo Mäki How do we manage ourselves Nina Pyykkönen Lunch Does death make us equal? Sami Pihlström Group discussions: Difficult death, It was nice to meet you Dinner at Restaurant Saslik 3

4 Friday 29 January AUDIT IN PALLIATIVE CARE Audit in palliative care. Guidance documents about Care of the Dying Ged Corcoran Plenary evaluation Lunch Finish The written assignment for Module 2 is to discuss some patient cases. These cases will be sent to your by after the second module. The assignment should be completed in four weeks after ending of the Module 2 and the answers sent by to the facilitators. 4

5 Teachers and Facilitators, NSCPM Module 2, Jan 2016: Tony O Brien, MD, Clinical Senior Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Cork, School of Medicine, Medical Director, Marymount Hospice, St. Patrick's Hospital Consultant Physician in, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland Pirjo Juhela, MD, Specialist in Psychiatry, Helsinki University Central Hospital Katri Hamunen, MD, PhD, Specialist in Anesthesiology, Pain clinic, Helsinki University Central Hospital Reino Pöyhiä, MD, PhD, Docent, Specialist in Anesthesiology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, MD, Specialist in Internal Medicine, Chief Physician, Hospital-at-Home, City of Helsinki Health Care Sami Pihlström Director, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Docent of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Helsinki Ged Corcoran, MD, Consultant in, Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool (MCPCIL), University of Liverpool, UK. Anas Hajjar, Imam, the Islamic Society of Finland Eija Mäkinen, chaplain Nina Pyykkönen, psychologist, University of Turku Seppo Mäki, chaplain 5