ESMO Preceptorship on Supportive and Palliative Care

Learning objectives

• Understand mechanisms of the key symptoms and syndromes pain, fatigue, anorexia, dyspnea, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, skin toxicities, mucositis, and their association with cancer-disease and anticancer-treatment
• Describe main pharmacological, physical, educational, communicative and coordinating interventions for management of cachexia and other key symptoms and syndromes
• Understand integration of screening for and assessment of anticancer toxicities, symptoms and other palliative and supportive care needs, and integration of their management in routine oncology care
• Describe required competences of multidisciplinary and inter-professional teams for multimodal management
• Understand key steps to prepare patients and family members for end-of-life and care of the dying person
• Understand the risk, prevention and management of venous thromboembolism, febrile neutropenia, anaemia and bone complications in cancer patients
• Understand how to communicate with patients about illness, prognosis, coping, hope, and decisions, reflect about your own role, and how to address cultural differences
• Know the ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines relevant for the topics discussed

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Accreditation

The programme of this event has been accredited with 10 ESMO-MORA category 1 points. Recertification is necessary for medical oncologists to remain professionally certified by ESMO. Recertification guarantees that a certified medical oncologist has continued to update her/his knowledge and continues to possess the necessary skills and standards for the practice of medical oncology. For further details, please refer to ESMO-MORA Recertification Process & Requirements.

Co-Chairs

• Karin Jordan, Germany
• Florian Strasser, Switzerland