97192 - Indications and Limitations of Radiation Therapy Palliative Care

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

Learning outcomes

● To know the definition and fundamental principles of palliative care (quality of life, early palliative care and end-of-life care) ● To know the different professional figures involved in palliative care ● To know the complex needs of palliative care of the patient with oncological and non-oncological pathology ● To recognize the relational and communicative needs of the patient and the family ● To recognize and treat the pain, symptoms and conditions most frequent in the patient with incurable disease ● To recognize the bioethical implications linked to the field of palliative care ● To know the modalities of communicative applications with patients and families. ● To know how to listen as a basic principle of palliative care.

Course contents

  • principles of palliative radiotherapy
  • planning and delivery methods
  • palliative effect and toxicity
  • main indications

Teaching methods

lectures and power point

Students who for reasons dependent on disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD) require compensatory tools are invited to communicate their needs as soon as possible to the teacher in order to agree on the adoption of the most appropriate measures.

Assessment methods

There is no final exam. At the end of the course, based on active participation in the lessons, the commission evaluates the student as eligible or not eligible.

Office hours

See the website of Alessio Giuseppe Morganti