Postgraduate Course: Pain in End of Life Care (PAMA11062)

Course Outline
School	Deanery of Clinical Sciences	College	College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course type	Online Distance Learning	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	Modern society often appears ill equipped to manage news of death and today death is routinely medicalised and hidden social view. Within this context, health care professionals encounter patients at the end-of-life regardless of type of speciality practice. Pain management in this context presents a unique set of challenges for both patient and healthcare professional. Knowledge of żtotal painż concepts (the interrelationship of a person's physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and practical struggles) along with basic end-of-life pain management can offer much to provide comfort to patients and their families. This course provides an examination of current pain management practice in the context of end-of-life care.
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
The course aims to contribute to improved patient outcomes by providing postgraduate, clinically relevant education of international standard in the sciences, concepts, approaches and procedures forming that form the basis of the management of pain in end-of-life care. Students will be exposed to and will be encouraged to apply current clinical knowledge to case study based learning problems within a clinical context.