Palliative Care: Foundations and Research module (GM51005)

Part 1

Ensure a working understanding of palliative care regarding:

• Identification of patients who could benefit from a palliative approach to care.
• The management of the common symptoms in palliative care patients.
• To enable future researchers to have the requisite understanding of and skills to deal with communication issues related to clinical research. Issues include: patient centred consent, dealing with distress, engaging other professionals reducing gate-keeping and separation of a clinical role from the researcher role.
• To be able to describe and reflect on research governance issues and challenges specific to palliative care research.

Part 2

Ensure a working understanding of palliative care regarding:

• Identification of patients who could benefit from a palliative approach to care.
• The management of the common symptoms in palliative care patients.
• To enable future researchers to have the requisite understanding of and skills to deal with communication issues related to clinical research. Issues include: patient centred consent, dealing with distress, engaging other professionals reducing gate-keeping and separation of a clinical role from the researcher role.
• To be able to describe and reflect on research governance issues and challenges specific to palliative care research.