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ESMO Preceptorship on Supportive and Palliative Care 2023: Lugano
- Start date
- 30 Mar 2023
- End date
- 31 Mar 2023
- Location
- Lugano, Switzerland
Learning objectives
- Understand mechanisms, risk, prevention and treatment of the key symptoms and syndromes pain, anorexia, cachexia, dyspnea, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, mucositis, neurotoxicity, cardiovascular events, venous thromboembolism, hematological complications and their association with cancer disease and antineoplastic treatment
- Understand integration of screening for and assessment of toxicities to antineoplastic treatment, symptoms and other supportive and palliative care needs, and integration of their management in routine oncology care
- Understand the role of rehabilitation in the continuum of supportive 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 how to communicate with patients about illness, prognosis, coping, hope and decisions. Reflect on your own role and how to address cultural differences
- Get familiar with the ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines on supportive and palliative care topics
Accreditation
The programme of this event has been accredited with 11 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:
- Christina Ruhlmann, Denmark
- Florian Scotté, France
