Mayo Clinic Palliative Medicine in Clinical Practice 2017

Mayo Clinic Palliative Medicine in Clinical Practice 2017 is a conference that covers topics such as:

• Formulate a strategy for communicating with patients and families with a serious illness about their overall goals of care
• Develop an approach for managing pain in patients with a terminal illness including a toolbox for alternate routes of administration, when to recognize aberrant opioid use behaviors and how to collaborate with Pain clinicians in the care of these patients
• Develop a framework for assessing patient prognosis and how to apply to patients with medical frailty
• Identify barriers/pitfalls/conflicts to communicating with patients and families with serious illness and conclude how to overcome them
• Identify practical tools for managing debilitating symptoms for patients at the end of life

Mayo Clinic Palliative Medicine in Clinical Practice 2017 brings together clinicians who work with patients with serious and life-threatening illnesses.