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Super-Earths and Life
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Overview
This course starts you on your journey of integrating primary palliative care into your daily lives. You will learn what palliative care is, how to communicate with patients, show empathy, and practice difficult conversations. You will learn how to screen for distress and provide psychosocial support. You will learn about goals of care and advance care planning and how to improve your success with having these conversations with patients. Finally, you will explore important cultural considerations and improve your cultural competency on the topics covered.
For clinicians, the goal of this course is to help you incorporate primary palliative care into your daily practice or help you know when to seek a specialist. We will help you improve your patient’s quality of life and provide self-care tips to help you maintain your own. For patients and caregivers, this course will empower you to talk to your provider and get palliative care, if necessary.
Stanford Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Visit the FAQs below for important information.
Syllabus 7
- Course Introduction and Overview 35 minutes
Welcome! Palliative Care Always is about optimizing quality of life at any stage of disease. This course, Essentials of Palliative Care, is rooted in the belief that incorporating the principles of palliative care into clinical practice can improve the quality of life for our patients and their sup…
- Introduction to Palliative Care 1.5 hours
This module focuses on what palliative care is, the roles of the care team and the difference between primary and speciality palliative care.
- Communicating with Patients 2 hours
Discussing difficult news is always a challenge for a variety of reasons. In this module, we will cover methods you can use to make these conversations more successful. Communication is the foundation of patient and clinician relationships and a key component of palliative care. Effective commun…
- Psychosocial Distress 2 hours
Most families living with cancer will experience some form of emotional, psychological or social distress. This may exist as episodes of grief or anxiety at specific points such as diagnosis or progression, or it may be a more chronic experience that has an ongoing impact on relationships and day-t…
- Goals of Care & Advanced Directives 2 hours
Goals of cancer care are often associated with prolonging life or preparing for the end of life. However, goals of care conversations identify wishes and values that guide every medical decision and help patients and families live the best life possible at every phase of care. Goals of care discuss…
- Self-Care 1.5 hours
Healthcare providers, in general, make a life of being attentive to and providing resources for people during times of illness and suffering. This type of work, while essential and rewarding, undoubtedly bears its cost in work-related stress, burnout and fatigue. The response to internal and extern…
- Final Steps 1.5 hours
Congratulations on completing the course content. You have a few more step to complete the course. First review your reflection, next complete a peer-reviewed course project and then take the final exam. We hope you have enjoyed the course and look forward to seeing you in other classes!
Skills you'll practise
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
- Structured courses with graded quizzes, assignments and deadlines you can reset.
- A shareable certificate from the university or company when you pay.
- Financial aid is often approved for students in India (apply 15 days before you need it).
- The actual Stanford lectures (CS229, CS224N, CS231N…): the deepest free material on AI anywhere.
- Taught by Stanford University, one of the strongest names in its field.
- Rated 4.7 out of 5 by 104 learners.
- Self-paced: start any time.
- A clear syllabus (7 parts) you can see before you start.
Disadvantages
- Paid after a 7-day free trial (Coursera Plus or per course).
- Some courses can be audited for free, but graded work and certificates need payment.
- Graduate level: needs linear algebra, probability and programming first.
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This course is paid. Here is how to take it for free
- Free trials: You can start a 7-day free trial for many individual courses, Specializations, or a Coursera Plus subscription to test full course features. Cancel before the seventh day if you do not want to be charged.
- Financial aid: If you cannot afford the fee for a certificate, you can apply for financial aid through the link on the course home page by filling out an application about your background and goals.
Taught by
- Kavitha RamchandranClinical Associate Professor, Oncology & Palliative Care
- Jan DeNofrioProgram Manager, Department of Medicine
Stanford University is in Tier 1: world-leading universities and India's top institutes of our institution ranking (97/100).
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