EURACT Snowball Symposium: "Teaching end-of-life discussion in GP/FM”

Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 17:00-19:00 CET (16:45 casual welcome session)

Many GPs and trainees feel themselves incompetent to start the conversation with their patients about dying. Do you? Most people die in primary care or communities. Healthcare costs of the final year of life account for up to a quarter of the lifetime expenditure. Would GPs initiate advance care planning and increase the number of living wills, the nearing death might follow the patient preferences - with lower costs.

This snowball symposium is a workshop where we explore how to teach to start end-of-life discussions, and why it matters, whether the learner is a medical student or a trainee. Along with small group discussions, participants will be provided with some data and additional educational material.

If possible, ask your students/trainees and yourself before the workshop: Do you believe that you can influence your patient´s trajectory of dying?

Registration

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Registration is free of charge.

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Access

Please go to the Event Foyer and login with the EURACT Account you have registered with to access the virtual symposium. To join the session you must have Zoom installed.

Intended learning outcomes:

After this workshop the participants are able to…

  • understand the necessity of advance care planning
  • identify the GP teacher's role in promoting good end-of-life care
  • analyse cultural peculiarities
  • modify their teaching accordingly, to have tools and confidence to teach end-of-life care

National representatives in EURACT Council will act as facilitators.

Facilitators

Helena Karppinen, Finland (chair)

GP specialist, special competence in medical education, PhD, EAMA Diploma in geriatric medicine, Chair ot the BME Committee of EURACT. Experienced clinical teacher in GP/FM undergraduate education at the University of Helsinki, and a trainer in ST and CPD.  
Now she is practising in a small rural practice in Eastern Finland.

Dr. Joachim Frolund Hansen (MD MMEd)

Joachim is a full-time GP and, besides this, is an associate professor at Aarhus University, involved in teaching, medical education research and controlling and developing postgraduate medical education.

Arabelle Rieder, Switzerland

Dr Rieder is a practising family doctor and teacher who works at Geneva Medical School as a senior lecturer since 2010. As head of Faculty development in the Family Medicine Institute she trains GP/FDs who mentor medical students and trainees in their practice.

Pavlo Kolesnyk, Ukraine

GP/FM Specialist, MD, PhD – Teacher and Head of the Family Medicine and Outpatient Care Department of Medical Faculty #2, Uzhgorod National University.
Director of the international teaching volunteer clinic "InterFamily" for internally displaced people during war in Ukraine.
Awarded as ‘5 Star Doctor of WONCA Europe’ in 2023.

Martine Granek-Catarivas, Israel

EURACT EB Member, Past chair of Israel Association of Teachers in FM
Past chair of Sharon Shomron Department of FM, Clalit Health Services
Tel Aviv University

Francesco Carelli, Italy

GP, Professor of FM at University in Milan. EURACT Council National Representative since 2001. In UK, Postgraduate Diploma (Belfast), RCGP, GMC, Italian Journalist Council, Associated Editor and Editorial Board in scientific journals for FM. Actually, involved in international COIN (Community Oriented Integration Network) discussing about end-of-life.

Alex Harding, UK

GP, Professor, MBBS BSc MEd DEd FRCGP PFHEA
Director of Undergraduate Community Clinical Placements
Director Postgraduate Primary Care Programmes
Co-Director Masters Clinical Education
University of Exeter Medical School

 

 

Date: 
29 October 2024
Location: 
Virtual