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NUMS Postgraduate Certificate in Palliative Care Program (PGCPC)

Academic Calendar – Session 2022/23

December 2022		January 2023		Feburary 2023		March 2023
		Jan 1 Sun		Feb 1 Wed		March 1 Wed
		Jan 2 Mon	Week 4	Feb 2 Thu		March 2 Thu
		Jan 3 Tue		Feb 3 Fri		March 3 Fri
		Jan 4 Wed		Feb 4 Sat	Live Chat box	March 4 Sat	Live chat box
		Jan 5 Thu		Feb 5 Sun	Week 9	March 5 Sun	Week 13
		Jan 6 Fri		Feb 6 Mon		March 6 Mon
		Jan 7 Sat	Live Chat box	Feb 7 Tue		March 7 Tue
Dec 8 Thu		Jan 8 Sun	Week 5	Feb 8 Wed		March 8 Wed
Dec 8 Thu	Introduction /LMS training	Jan 9 Mon		Feb 9 Thu		March 9 Thur
Dec 9 Fri	Course 1 Week 1	Jan 10 Tue		Feb 10 Fri		March 10 Fri
Dec 10 Sat		Jan 11 Wed		Feb 11 Sat	Live Chat box	March 11Sat	Live Chat box
Dec 10 Sat		Jan 11 Wed		Feb 11 Sat	Live Chat box	March 11Sat	Internal Assessment course 1 and 2
Dec 11 Sun		Jan 12 Thu		Feb 12 Sun	Week 10	March 12sun	Week 14
Dec 12 Mon		Jan 13 Fri	Course 2 Week 6	Feb 13 Mon		March 13 Mon
Dec 13 Tue		Jan 14 Sat		Feb 14 Tue		March 14 Tue
Dec 14 wed		Jan 15 Sun		Feb 15 Wed		March 15 Wed
Dec 15 Thu		Jan 16 Mon		Feb 16 Thu		March16 Thu
Dec 15 Thu		Jan 17 Tue		Feb 17 Fri		March 17 Fri
Dec 16 Fri		Jan 18 Wed		Feb 18 Sat	Live Chat box	March 18 Sat	Live Chat box
Dec 17 Sat	Live Chat box	Jan 18 Wed		Feb 18 Sat	Week 11	March 18 Sat	Week 15
Dec 18 Sun	Week 2	Jan 19 Thu		Feb 19 Sun		March 19 Sun
Dec 19 Mon		Jan 20 Fri		Feb 20 Mon		March 20 Mon
Dec 20 Tue		Jan 21 Sat	Live Chat box	Feb 21 Tue		March 21 Tue
Dec 21 Wed		Jan 22 Sun	Week 7	Feb 22 Wed		March 22 Wed
Dec 22 Thu		Jan 23 Mon		Feb 23 Thu		March 23 Thu
Dec 23 Fri		Jan 24 Tue		Feb 24 Fri	Course 3 Week 12	March 24 Fri
Dec 24 Sat	Live Chat box	Jan 25 Wed		Feb 25 Sat		March 25 Sat	Live chat box
Dec 25 Sun	Week 3	Jan 26 Thu		Feb 26 Sun		March 26 Sun	Week 16
Dec 26 Mon		Jan 27 Fri	Live Chat box Week 8	Feb 27 Mon		March27 Mon
Dec 27 Tue		Jan 28 Sat		Feb 28 Tue		March 28 Tue
Dec 28 Wed		Jan 29 Sun				March29 Wed
Dec 29 Thu
Dec 30 Fri	Week 4
Dec 30 Fri	Week 4	Jan 30 Mon				March 30 Thu
Dec 31 Sat	Live Chat box	Jan 31 Tue				March 31 Fri

April 2023		May2023		June 2023
April 1 Sat	Live Chat box	May 1 Mon	Week 19	June 1 Thu
April 2 Sun	Week 17	May 2 Tue		June 2 Fri
April 3 Mon		May 3 Wed		June 3 Sat	Live Chat box
April 4 Tue		May 4 Thu		June 4 Sun	Week 24
April 5 Wed		May 5 Fri	Live Chat box Week 20	June 5 Mon
April 6 Thu		May 6 Sat		June 6 Tue
April 7 Fri	Course 4 Week 18	May 7 Sun		June 7 Wed
				June 8 Thur
				June 9 Fri
				June 10 Sat	2^nd Internal assessment (Course 3 and 4)
April 8 Sat		May 8 Mon		Final Assessment Course 1-4 Live Chat box Timings 5-6pm PST Date and Timings of live lectures shall be communicated during the Program
April 9 Sun		May 9 Tue
April 10 Mon		May 10 Wed
April 11 Tue		May 11 Thu
April 12 Wed		May 12 Fri
April 13 Thu		May 13 Sat	Live Chat box
April 14 Fri	EIDULFITR BREAK	May 14 Sun	Week 21
April 15 Sat		May 15 Mon
April 16 Sun		May 16 Tue
April 17 Mon		May 17 Wed
April 18 Tue		May 18 Thu
April 19 Wed		May 19 Fri
April 20 Thu		May 20 Sat	Live Chat box
April 21 Fri		May 21 Sun	Week 22
April 22 Sat		May 22 Mon
April 23 Sun		May 23 Tue
April 24 Mon		May 24 Wed
April 25 Tue		May 25 Thu
April 26 Wed		May 26 Fri
April 27 Thu		May 27 Sat	Live Chat box
April 28 Fri		May 28 Sun	Week 23
April 29 Sat	Live Chat box	May 29 Mon
April 30 Sun	Week 19	May 30 Tue
		May 3 Wed

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Name pf applicants:

Muhammad Sohaib Nadim
MUHAMMAD NOMAN
NAJMA PERVEEN
Hamna Wajid
Aamira ali
Abdur Rehman
Ali Shakeel
amna khan
Dr. Neelofur Malik
Farhan zeb
Farrukh Zulfiqar
Fatima Ajmal
Hasan Mukhtar
Muhammad Arslan Naseer
Muhammad Asad Ullah Awan
Shafqat ali
sidra khan
talha Mazhar
Mewhish kanwal
Dr Shazia
Rizwana Naz
tayyab Ijaz

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Name pf applicants:

Ali Nadeem
ujala ali
Bushra Iftikhar
Daman-e-Zehra
Dr Muhammad Siddique
Dr sana jamil
Dr Zeeshan Rasool
Dr. Hira Shafqat
Dr. Syed Naeemullah
Dr.Bharat Kumar
Humza
Ibrar khan
Muhammad Shahzeb
Nasser Ali Malik
Noorulain Ali
Rana Muhammad Shoaib
Salman Yaqoob
Sania Naz
talha bin fazal
ZOHAIB MASOOD
Hajra.siddiqua
Khalid Nafees
Madiha.Mustafa

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Faculty	Designation	Qualification
Dr Muhammad A Butt	Consultant Oncologist UK	MBBS, MRCP, FRCP
Dr Muhammad Saeed	Consultant Palliative Care KSA	MD, FACP, CMD
Dr Humaira Jamal	Consultant Palliative Care	MBBS, PhD, FRCP
Dr Qamar Abas	Medical Director, St Clare’s Hospice, UK
Dr Fawad Ahmed	Consultant Palliative Care KSA	MBBS, FRCP
Dr Tayyaba Irshad	Consultant Palliative Care USA	MBBS, MRCGP
Dr Farhan Zahid Khawaja	Consultant oncologist UK	MBBS, FCPS,MRCPI
Dr Maimoona	Senior Registrar Palliative Care UK	MRCP
Dr Sadaf Mudassir	Founder- SPPP, GP-UK

CORE Faculty /Tutors of NUMS PGCPC NATIONAL

Faculty	Designation	Qualification
Dr Nafisa Tahir	Professor of Medicine NUMS	MBBS FCPS
Dr Rimsha Azhar	Assisrtant Professor of Medicine NUMS	MBBS FCPS
Dr Bilal Malik	Consultant Dermatologist UK	MBBS,Certified palliative care physician

Tutors/Faculty of Live Lectures PGCPC -2022

Core Team Tutors mentioned above plus following faculty

Faculty	Designation
Dr Haroon Hafeez	Consultant Oncologist SKH Lahore
Dr James Grose	Onsultant palliative care, UK
Dr Nicky Bailhache	MBChB, MRCGP,
Dr Zafar Javed	Consultant Palliative Care UAE

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NUMS Post-Graduate Certificate in Palliative Care (PG-CPC) - Course Timeline

Pc 301

Session 2022-23, 2^nd Batch

8^th dec 2022

Introductory Session with students

Tutorial on Moodle

Dr. Nafisa Tahir

Dr Rimsha Azhar

Aqsa ARSHAD

Introduction to the certificate/curriculum/assessment methods

Dr. Nafisa Tahir

Dr ayaz butt

Dr sadaf

Course 1: Introduction to Palliative Care

Learning Objectives: At the end of this module, the participants will be able to:

Identify the concept of palliative care and its role in management of illness
Apply the principles of palliative care to manage pain by pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches
Understand the challenges of breaking bad news
Recognize factors contributing to the prognosis of various life limiting illnesses, recognize EOL and trajectory events referred to as actively dying or imminent death
Define code status and understand principles of DNA CPR
Making the decisions about commencing an end of life care plan.

Course 1	Course breakdown	Dates	Weeks	Topics	Facilitators
PC-301 Introduction to Palliative Care	Palliative Care Range of patients and needs in Palliative Care Settings: home/hospital/home/hospice Pain control	9^TH DEC-15 DEC	Week 1	Introduction to Palliative Care, Palliative History and Examination	Humaira Jamal
		16^TH DEC-22 DEC	Week 2	Communication skills, Breaking Bad news (Part 1 and Part 2)	Shagufta Mirza Khalique Rehman
		23 DEC-29^TH DEC	Week 3	Cancer Pain Management	Adnan Kabir
				Advanced Pain Management	Mohammad Butt
				Palliative Oncology	Mohammad Butt
	Experience of the end of life DNA/CPR & ceilings of care. Coping with seeing patients close to the end of life and at death	30^th dec-5^th jan 2023	Week 4	Care of the dying	Adnan Kabir Elisabeth Bjorndal
		6^th jan-12th jan	Week 5	End of Life Care	Mohammad Butt
		6^th jan-12th jan	Week 5	How Long I have got Doc?	Humaira Jamal

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Course Description and Scheme

1. Description of Course & Scheme of Study

This will be a 26-week certificate program.

24-week self-study model with synchronous online sessions : This program comprises of prerecorded video lectures by palliative care /oncology experts and interactive online teaching sessions.
Online learning of 24 weeks is conducted via NUMS digital e-learning portal, accessible to faculty and participants through their personal accounts.
A hybrid workshop on communication skill is conducted at NUMS campus. In this workshop participants from Rawalpindi and Islamabad participate physically whereas rest of the participant participate through zoom link.

2. Curriculum Outline:

The basics and advance management of palliative care will be divided into 4 modules.

Introduction to Palliative Care
Ethical issues at the end of life
Public health and palliative care
Symptom management

This certificate program is of 12 credit hours; details are given in the table below.

Course Code	Course (Each course of 6 weeks)	Credit Hours
PC – 301	Introduction to Palliative Care	3
PC – 302	Ethical issues at the end of life	3
PC – 303	Public Health and Palliative Care	3
PC – 304	Symptom Management	3
Total Credit Hours		12

Online Contact Session Once in a week (Lecture or chat box)	Self-study Pre-recorded lectures, case studies, forum discussion, reading material and assignments		Online Contact Session Once in a week (Lecture or chat box)	Online Contact Session Once in a week (Lecture or chat box)
	Course 1	Course 2		Course 3	Course 4
Weeks	5 weeks (3 credit hrs)	6 weeks (3 credit hrs)	Weeks	6 weeks (3 credit hrs)	7 weeks (3 credit hrs)
Duration	9^th Dec 2022-12^th Jan 2023	13^th Jan 2023-23^rd feb 2023	Duration	24^th feb 2023-6^th april 2023	7^thapril 2023-8^th jun 2023

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NUMS Post-Graduate Certificate in Palliative Care (PG-CPC)

Learning Objectives & Program Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Palliative Care

Learning Objectives: At the end of this module, the participants will be able to:

Identify the concept of palliative care and its role in management of illness
Apply the principles of palliative care to manage pain by pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches
Understand the challenges of breaking bad news
Recognize factors contributing to the prognosis of various life limiting illnesses, recognize EOL and trajectory events referred to as actively dying or imminent death
Define code status and understand principles of DNA CPR
Making the decisions about commencing an end of life care plan.

Course 1	Course breakdown	Dates	Weeks	Topics	Facilitators
PC-301 Introduction to Palliative Care	Palliative Care Range of patients and needs in Palliative Care Settings: home/hospital/home/hospice Pain control	9^TH DEC-15 DEC	Week 1	Introduction to Palliative Care, Palliative History and Examination	Humaira Jamal
		16^TH DEC-22 DEC	Week 2	Communication skills, Breaking Bad news (Part 1 and Part 2)	Shagufta Mirza Khalique Rehman
		23 DEC-29^TH DEC	Week 3	Cancer Pain Management	Adnan Kabir
				Advanced Pain Management	Mohammad Butt
				Palliative Oncology	Mohammad Butt
	Experience of the end of life DNA/CPR & ceilings of care. Coping with seeing patients close to the end of life and at death	30^th dec-5^th jan 2023	Week 4	Care of the dying	Adnan Kabir Elisabeth Bjorndal
		6^th jan-12th jan	Week 5	End of Life Care	Mohammad Butt
		6^th jan-12th jan	Week 5	How Long I have got Doc?	Humaira Jamal

Module 2: Ethical issues at the end of life

Learning Objectives: At the end of this module, the participants will be able to:

Understand the ethical issues towards the end of life and relevant choice of treatments
Understand the Golden standard framework and its relevance to local practices, principles of peri-death care with cultural sensitivities
Provide and verify a death certificate
Inform relatives with empathy, referral to coroner/funeral services according to local rules
Recognize stages of grief and depression
Look after oneself, practice resilience and guide carers
Navigate through the difficult journey

Course Code / Course Title	Course breakdown	Dates	Weeks	Topics	Facilitators
PC-302 Ethical issues at the end of life	Ethics in palliative care Ethical and legal principles (with Clinical Ethics and Law) Difficult cases, euthanasia, assisted suicide Artificial nutrition and hydration	13^th January-19 january	Week 6	Ethical Issues	Iqtedar Muazzam
				Gold standard Framework	Liz Dorey
		20^th January-26^th january	Week 7	Advanced Care Planning	Mohammad Butt
				Nutrition and hydration at EOL	Maimona Ali
	Bereavement Symposium Morbidity and mortality of bereavement Models of grief Caring for the bereaved in practice Self-care	27^th January-2 February	Week 8	Bereavement and Grief	Mohammad Saeed
				Care of the carers	Abid Raza
		3^rd Feb-9^th feb	Week 9	Self-Care	Mohammad Butt
				Well-being and Resilience	Farhan Zahid Khawaja
	Care after Death Conversations with relatives after death Interview with Funeral Director Visit to hospital mortuary Religious and cultural issues Death verification, death certification and cremation certificates	10^th-16^th feb	Week 10	Death verification, death certification and cremation certificates	Fawad Ahmad
				Post Death Conversation	Sadaf Muddassar
		17^th feb-23rd feb	Week 11	Religious and Cultural issues	Mohammad Butt
MCQ Assessment

Module 3: Public Health Aspects

Learning Objectives: At the end of this module, the participants will be able to:

Understand the relevance of health inequalities and its impact on provision of healthcare.
Integrate palliative care in cancer and other major long-term illness and how to integrate palliative care in those areas.
Understand issues related to pediatric long term illnesses.

Course Code / Course Title	Course breakdown	Dates	Weeks	Topics	Facilitators
PC-303 Public Health Aspects in	Public health and palliative care POD stats and inequalities. PPOD	24 feb - 2^nd march	Week 12	Public Health and Palliative care	Mohammad Butt
		24 feb - 2^nd march	Week 12	POD	Mohammad Butt
		3^rd march-9th march	Week 13	Public Health inequalities	Mohammad Butt
	Living with uncertainty in non-cancer long-term illness	10^th march-16th march	Week 14	Prognostication	Tayyaba Irshad
		17^th march-23rd march	Week 15	Prognostication	Dr. Waqas Ali
		24^th march-30th march	Week 16	Heart Failure	Mohammad Butt
		24^th march-30th march	Week 16	Dyspnoea/ Breathlessness	Noori Rafique
	Pediatric & Adolescent Palliative Care	31^st march-6th april	Week 17	Palliative care for The Adolescent and Young	Farhan Zahid Khawaja
	Pediatric & Adolescent Palliative Care	31^st march-6th april	Week 17	Paediatric PC	Sobia Bilal

Module 4: Symptom Management

Learning Objectives: At the end of this module, the participants will be able to:

Recognize and manage emergencies in palliative care, including Major hemorrhage, Hypercalcemia, Superior vena cava obstruction, Spinal cord compression, Bone fractures Anxiety/panic, and Seizures
Develop an understanding of the principles of symptom assessment by history taking and identifying different types of symptoms taking into account the perspectives of individual patients

Course Code / Course Title	Course breakdown	Dates	Weeks	Topics	Facilitators
PC-304 Symptom Management In palliative care	Management G.I symptoms Pain management Emergency management	7^th april-13th april	Week 18	Palliative Care in ER	Palwasha Khan
				Nausea and Vomiting	Naheed Khan Lodhi
				Constipation and Palliative care	Naheed Khan Lodhi

		Ramadan /eid ul fitr break 14^th april-27th april
		28^th april-4th may	Week 19	Management of seizure	Waqas Ilyas
				Hypercalcaemia	M. Muneeb Khan
		5^th may- 11^th may	Week 20	Gastrointestinal Symptoms in PC	Mateen Akhtar
				SVCO	Ilyas Mansoori
		12^th may-18th may	Week 21	Palliative Radiotherapy-mSCC, Brain and Bone Metastasis	Tanzeel Khalid Janjua
				Drug Conversions	Mamoona Ali
		19^th may -25^th may	Week 22	Principles of Chemotherapy and Toxicity management	Sohail Amin
				Extravasation management	Waqas Ilyas
		26^th may -1stjun	Week 23	Orphan symptoms	Maimoona Ali
				Complimentary Therapies	Farhan Zahid Khawaja
	Confusion and Affective States in Palliative Care Confusion and delirium. Anxiety/depression/ appropriate sadness	2^nd june -8^th jun	Week 24	Mental Health	Amer Mukhtar
				Confusion and restlessness	Mohammad Butt
Final Assessment including all 4 courses