The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Updates in Hospice and Palliative Care and Intensive Physician Board Review 2025

Description

+ Include: 37 videos + 37 file sub vtt + 40 pdfs, size: 12.54 GB

+ Target Audience: palliative care physicians and oncologists

+ Information:

1. Overview

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Updates in Hospice and Palliative Care and Intensive Physician Board Review 2025 provides a comprehensive curriculum to prepare clinicians for board certification while delivering the latest updates in palliative medicine. The program focuses on advanced symptom management, complex pain control, ethical considerations, and disease-specific palliative care strategies.

Caring for patients with advanced-stage cancer poses challenges for healthcare teams, necessitating attention to medical, psychosocial, ethical, and spiritual needs. The Board Review Course is designed to equip physicians with the knowledge and competence in Palliative Medicine, preparing them for the ABIM Hospice and Palliative (HPM) exam.

Course Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 8:00 AM – Thursday, September 18, 2025, 5:35 PM, MD Anderson – Virtual

2. Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to:

1. Analyze the spiritual, legal, and medical challenges confronting patients at the end of life.
2. Deliver optimal end-of-life care encompassing state-of-the-art pain management, symptom control, and psychosocial support.
3. Illustrate effective communication techniques with patients in advanced stages of cancer or debilitating disease, offering high-quality end-of-life care.

3. Target Audience

Best for palliative care physicians and oncologists who want updates on advanced symptom management, ethical care, and complex pain control.

Target Audience

Specialties – Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Professions – Other, Physician (MD or DO), Student or Trainee

4. Topics

1. Adjuvants for Pain Management

2. Cachexia

3. Cancer Treatment Toxicities- Chemotherapy, Radiation Therapy, Targeted Therapy, and Immunotherapy – Sonal Admane, MD

4. Challenging Conversations in Palliative Care

5. Delirium, and Opioid-Induced Neurotoxicity

6. Disease Specific Palliative Care I- Cardiac and Renal

7. Disease Specific Palliative Care II- Neurological, AIDS

8. Dyspnea and Cough

9. Ethical and Legal Decision Making

10. Fatigue

11. Geriatric Palliative Care

12. Grief & Bereavement

13. ICU II; and Ventilator Weaning – Kevin Madden, MD

14. Integrative Approaches to Manage Pain – Larry Driver, MD

15. Interdisciplinary team, Professionalism, Quality Improvement, Compliance, and Burnout – Suresh Reddy, MD

16. Interventions for the Management of Cancer Pain

17. Lunch- Meet the Professor – 01

18. Lunch- Meet the Professor- Pain Management and Opioid Case Discussions

19. Lunch- Meet the Professor

20. Management of Anxiety-Depression at the End-of-Life

21. Medicare Hospice Benefit

22. Medication Interactions – Matthew Clark, PharmD

23. Nausea-Constipation-Bowel Obstruction

24. Opioid Rotation

25. Opioid Safety, Non-Medical Opioid Use, and Risk Mitigation Strategies – Joseph Arthur MD

26. Opioids for Pain Management

27. Pain- Assessment and Principles

28. Palliative Care Emergencies

29. Palliative Care in the ICU – Kevin Madden, MD

30. Palliative Care in the Last Week of Life

31. Pediatric Palliative Care II – Kevin Madden, MD

32. Pediatric Palliative Care

33. Prognostication

34. Sleep Disturbance – Sriram Yennu MD

35. Spiritual Care

36. Welcome Introduction and General Overview of Course- How to Take the Exam

37. Wound Care-Pressure — Ulcers-Pruritis-Xerostomia