Course Content

Highlighted are sessions formally addressing issues related to end of life care and symptom management that are currently offered within the curriculum.

Behavioral Development

• Lecture: Behavioral Aspects of Pain

Mechanisms of Human Disease

• Lecture/Video: The Autopsy
• Lecture: Pathophysiology of Dyspnea and Cough
• Small Group Case Question: Patient with Metastatic Lung Cancer

Neuroscience

• Lecture: End of Life
• Lecture: Pain I & Pain II

Patient Centered Medicine 1

• Lecture: Clinical Bioethics
• Lecture: Catholic Bioethics
• Lecture: Spirituality
• Chaplain-Mentor Program

Patient Centered Medicine 2

• Lecture: Raising Difficult Subjects: Advance Directives, Code Status, End of Life, Notification of Death & Request for Autopsy 

Patient Centered Medicine 3

• Lecture: Giving Bad News
• Lecture: Developing an Effective Oral Analgesic Regimen
• Lecture: Advance Directives/Establishing Goals of Care
• Role Play: DNR Discussion
• Lecture: End of Life Ethics and End of Life Realities
• Panel Discussion: The Ways We Cope
• Lecture: Nuts and Bolts of Hospice
• Lecture: What is Palliative Care
• Ethics Written Paper Requirement: Option “Spiritual Care and Death of a Patient”

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

• Lecture: NSAIDs I and II
• Lecture: Opioid Analgesics
• Lecture: Pharmacologic Palliation of Constipation and Nausea/Vomiting

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