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MD Anderson Updates in Hospice and Palliative Care and Intensive Physician Board Review 2024 — prepare for the HPM boards
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Updates in Hospice and Palliative Care and Intensive Physician Board Review 2024 was filmed over three days, 17–19 September 2024, in the Hickey Auditorium in Houston. Aimed squarely at the ABIM Hospice and Palliative Medicine examination, it delivers 37 recorded sessions with 40 PDFs (18.1 GB), including matching question and answer handbooks and the exam blueprint. Pain and opioids take up a large share, but symptom control, communication, ethics, the ICU and paediatrics are all covered.
- 37videos
- 40PDF files
- 2question and answer handbooks
- 18.1 GBdownload
What you’ll be able to do
- Assess cancer pain and manage it with opioids, rotation, adjuvants and interventional options
- Recognise opioid-induced neurotoxicity and delirium, and reduce non-medical opioid use
- Treat dyspnoea, nausea, bowel obstruction, fatigue, cachexia and sleep disturbance
- Handle palliative emergencies, ventilator withdrawal and care in the last week of life
- Lead challenging conversations and apply ethical and legal decision-making
- Explain the Medicare hospice benefit and tackle the exam with a clear strategy
Inside the course
Pain and opioid mastery
Assessment principles, opioid therapy and rotation, adjuvant drugs, interventional and integrative approaches, drug interactions and risk mitigation, with two lunchtime case discussions with faculty.
Symptoms from head to skin
Sessions on delirium, anxiety and depression, dyspnoea and cough, gastrointestinal symptoms, cachexia, fatigue, sleep, pressure ulcers, pruritus and xerostomia, and the toxicities of chemotherapy, radiation, targeted therapy and immunotherapy.
Disease-specific and setting-specific care
Cardiac, renal, neurological and AIDS palliation, geriatric and two paediatric sessions, two ICU talks and prognostication.
Hospice and Palliative Care board essentials
An exam orientation opens the course; grief, spiritual care, teamwork, burnout, quality and compliance round out the non-clinical domains the board tests.
Built for
- HPM fellows and board candidatesA full review mapped to the ABIM exam, with practice questions.
- Internists, family physicians and oncologistsStronger symptom management for patients with advanced disease.
- Pain and anaesthesiology cliniciansDeep coverage of cancer pain and opioid safety.
Syllabus
Recorded sessions 37 videos
- Delirium, and Opioid Induced Neurotoxicity
- Prognostication – (Remote Presentation)
- Adjuvants for Pain Management
- Cachexia
- Cancer treatment Toxicities- Chemotherapy, Radiation Therapy, Targeted Therapy and Immunotherapy
- Challenging Conversations in Palliative Care
- Disease Specific Palliative Care I- Cardiac and Renal-
- Disease Specific Palliative Care II- Neurological, AIDS
- Dyspnea and Cough – (Remote Presentation)
- Ethical and Legal Decision Making
- Fatigue
- Geriatric Palliative Care
- Grief & Bereavement
- ICU II; and Ventilator Weaning
- Integrative Approaches for Management of Pain
- Interdisciplinary team, Professionalism, Quality Improvement, Compliance, and Burnout
- Interventions for Management of Cancer Pain
- Introduction and General Overview of Course- How to Take the Exam
- Lunch- Meet the Professor 2
- Lunch- Meet the Professor- Pain Management and Opioid Case Discussions
- Lunch- Meet the Professor
- Management of Anxiety Depression at the End-of-Life
- Medicare Hospice Benefit
- Medication Interactions
- Nausea Constipation Bowel Obstruction
- Opioid Rotation
- Opioid Safety, Non-Medical Opioid Use, and Risk Mitigation Strategies
- Opioids for Pain Management
- Pain- Assessment and Principles
- Palliative Care Emergencies – (Remote Presentation)
- Palliative Care in the ICU
- Palliative Care in the Last Week of Life
- Pediatric Palliative Care II
- Pediatric Palliative Care
- Sleep Disturbance
- Spiritual Care
- Wound Care Pressure- UlcersPruritisXerostomia
Before you buy
Were all MD Anderson palliative talks given in person?
Three sessions (prognostication, dyspnoea and cough, and palliative emergencies) are marked as remote presentations.
Does every palliative video have slides?
Nearly all do; one of the three lunchtime Meet the Professor recordings has no matching PDF, and one PDF is simply the course brochure.
Are the MD Anderson faculty names listed?
No. Session titles are available, but presenters are not identified.
Do I get CME credit or a certificate?
No. Clinicapedia provides the educational content only — no CME or CE credits, MOC points or certificates of completion are included with this product.
Specifications
| Format | 37 videos + 40 PDFs |
|---|---|
| Size | 18.1 GB |
| Recorded | 17–19 September 2024, Houston |
| Organiser | The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| Department | Internal Medicine |
| Delivery | Instant download · lifetime re-download |
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