Palliative Medicine and End of Life Care

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Credits 0 to 10. 0 to 10 Other Hours. Basic information on the interdisciplinary approach to palliative and end-of-life care; skills needed to improve communication with patients with chronic or terminal diseases and appropriate methods of delivering bad news; medical management of pain and selected non-pain symptoms in patients with life limiting illness; development of understanding of the comprehensive nature of end-of-life care, the distinctive nature of its patient care model, and its significant place in today’s healthcare arena; no night call required.