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EDUMECENTRO
versão On-line ISSN 2077-2874
Resumo
MORALES YERA, Rodolfo Arian et al. Updating course on palliative care for cancer patients, for General Practitioners. EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2021, vol.13, n.3, pp. 289-308. Epub 30-Set-2021. ISSN 2077-2874.
Background:
cancer is one of the main causes of morbidity and the first cause of mortality in the world, between 30% and 40% of diagnosed patients are cured; the rest will inevitably go through advanced and terminal stages, they will need palliative care.
Objective:
to design a professional improvement course for General Practitioners, through which they acquire the knowledge and skills required to provide palliative care to cancer patients.
Methods:
an investigation based on the dialectical-materialist method, with a qualitative approach, was carried out at the “XX Aniversario” University Polyclinic, from September 2019 to March 2020. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction; empirical ones: documentary analysis of contents related to palliative care in undergraduate and postgraduate studies of Medicine and a questionnaire for doctors to self-assess their deficiencies; and the mathematical-statistical ones for the absolute and relative values.
Results:
the professionals sampled self-evaluated as average their general knowledge about palliative care to patients with cancer, most did not feel qualified to offer them, while others recognized insufficient improvement courses, so a course composed of nine topics was designed, with their objectives, contents and assessment forms, which was valued by specialist criteria.
Conclusions:
the designed training course was valued as very adequate in its aspects: relevance, affordability and scientific-methodological treatment of its topics.
Palavras-chave : neoplasms; training courses; professional competence; education, professional; education, medical.