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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

 

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

 

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

 

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

Week 11

 

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

 

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

2nd 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:

 

  1. Muhammad Sohaib Nadim
  2. MUHAMMAD NOMAN
  3. NAJMA PERVEEN
  4. Hamna Wajid
  5. Aamira ali
  6. Abdur Rehman
  7. Ali Shakeel
  8. amna khan
  9. Dr. Neelofur Malik
  10. Farhan zeb
  11. Farrukh Zulfiqar
  12. Fatima Ajmal
  13. Hasan Mukhtar
  14. Muhammad Arslan Naseer
  15.  Muhammad Asad Ullah Awan
  16.  Shafqat ali
  17. sidra khan
  18. talha Mazhar
  19. Mewhish kanwal
  20. Dr Shazia
  21.  Rizwana Naz
  22.  tayyab Ijaz

 

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Name pf applicants:

 

  1. Ali Nadeem
  2. ujala ali
  3. Bushra Iftikhar
  4. Daman-e-Zehra
  5. Dr Muhammad Siddique
  6. Dr sana jamil
  7. Dr Zeeshan Rasool
  8. Dr. Hira Shafqat
  9. Dr. Syed Naeemullah
  10. Dr.Bharat Kumar
  11. Humza
  12. Ibrar khan
  13. Muhammad Shahzeb
  14. Nasser Ali Malik
  15. Noorulain Ali
  16. Rana Muhammad Shoaib
  17. Salman Yaqoob
  18. Sania Naz
  19. talha bin fazal
  20. ZOHAIB MASOOD
  21. Hajra.siddiqua
  22. Khalid Nafees
  23. 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,    2nd Batch

8th 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

9TH DEC-15 DEC

Week 1

Introduction to Palliative Care, Palliative History and Examination

Humaira Jamal

16TH DEC-22 DEC

Week 2

Communication skills, Breaking Bad news (Part 1 and Part 2)

Shagufta Mirza

Khalique Rehman

23 DEC-29TH 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

30th dec-5th jan 2023

Week 4

Care of the dying

Adnan Kabir

Elisabeth Bjorndal

6th jan-12th jan

Week 5

End of Life Care

Mohammad Butt

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.

  1. 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.
  2. Online learning of 24 weeks is conducted via NUMS digital e-learning portal, accessible to faculty and participants through their personal accounts.
  3. 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.

  1. Introduction to Palliative Care
  2. Ethical issues at the end of life
  3. Public health and palliative care
  4. 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

9th Dec 2022-12th Jan 2023

13th Jan 2023-23rd feb 2023

Duration

24th feb 2023-6th april 2023

7thapril 2023-8th 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

9TH DEC-15 DEC

Week 1

Introduction to Palliative Care, Palliative History and Examination

Humaira Jamal

16TH DEC-22 DEC

Week 2

Communication skills, Breaking Bad news (Part 1 and Part 2)

Shagufta Mirza

Khalique Rehman

23 DEC-29TH 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

30th dec-5th jan 2023

Week 4

Care of the dying

Adnan Kabir

Elisabeth Bjorndal

6th jan-12th jan

Week 5

End of Life Care

Mohammad Butt

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

13th January-19 january

Week 6

Ethical Issues

Iqtedar Muazzam

Gold standard Framework

Liz Dorey

20th January-26th 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

27th January-2 February

Week 8

Bereavement and Grief

Mohammad Saeed

Care of the carers

Abid Raza

3rd Feb-9th 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

10th-16th feb

Week 10

Death verification, death certification and cremation certificates

Fawad Ahmad

Post Death Conversation

Sadaf Muddassar

17th 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 - 2nd march

Week 12

Public Health and Palliative care

Mohammad Butt

POD

Mohammad Butt

3rd march-9th march

Week 13

Public Health inequalities

Mohammad Butt

Living with uncertainty in non-cancer long-term illness

10th march-16th march

Week 14

Prognostication

Tayyaba Irshad

17th march-23rd march

Week 15

Prognostication

Dr. Waqas Ali

24th march-30th march

Week 16

Heart Failure

Mohammad Butt

Dyspnoea/ Breathlessness

Noori Rafique

Pediatric & Adolescent Palliative Care

31st march-6th april

Week 17

Palliative care for The Adolescent and Young

Farhan Zahid Khawaja

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

7th 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 14th april-27th april

28th april-4th may

Week 19

Management of seizure

Waqas Ilyas

Hypercalcaemia

M. Muneeb Khan

5th may- 11th may

Week 20

Gastrointestinal Symptoms in PC

Mateen Akhtar

SVCO

Ilyas Mansoori

12th may-18th may

Week 21

Palliative Radiotherapy-mSCC, Brain and Bone Metastasis

Tanzeel Khalid Janjua

Drug Conversions

Mamoona Ali

19th may -25th may

Week 22

Principles of Chemotherapy and Toxicity management

Sohail Amin

Extravasation management

Waqas Ilyas

26th 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

2nd june -8th jun

Week 24

Mental Health

Amer Mukhtar

Confusion and restlessness

Mohammad Butt

Final Assessment including all 4 courses

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Tutor:

        Dr. Attia Sheikh

Participant:

  1. ABDUL SALAM MALIK
  2. ATTIYA LATIF
  3. FAHAD ABID
  4. FAYYAZ HASSAN
  5. HAIDER ALI
  6. JAVARIA MUMTAZ ALVI
  7. MAEIRAH SHAFIQUE
  8. MUHAMMAD ASIM
  9. NAHEED AKHTAR
  10. NUZHAT FIRDOUS
  11. RABIA KHAN
  12. ROMANA NOREEN
  13. SADAF SHAFIQUE
  14. SHABANA ASIF
  15. AMEER YASSER ZAIDI
  16. Islam Bano
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Tutor:

      Dr. Sumaira Iqbal

Participant:

  1. ASIM IQBAL
  2. GHANA SHAHID
  3. HASSAN MAJID BHATTI
  4. MIAN ROHAIL HAYAT
  5. MUHAMMAD ARSALAN
  6. MUHAMMAD TARIQ
  7. PROFESSOR DR. MUHAMMAD JAMIL
  8. RABAIL AKBAR QAZI
  9. TARIQ MASOOD MALIK
  10. YASMEEN
  11. ZHAUPHEEN PALWASHA
  12.  ZILL E HUMA TARIQ
  13. ZUHA RIAZ
  14. RUBAB ZULFIQAR
  15. Usman Anwar
  16. Tahir Riaz
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Tutor:

       Dr. Uzma Urooj

Participant:

  1. AMARA NAZIR
  2. MADIHA IQBAL
  3. MUHAMMAD IQBAL
  4. MUHAMMAD USMAN
  5. NOMANA MAHMOOD SYED
  6. PAKIZA FATIMA
  7. SADAF QADEER
  8. SAJID SHAMIM
  9. SAMAN MEHMOOD
  10. SAMARAH NAEEM
  11. SARAH SHEIKH
  12. ZAINEB ABBAS  
  13. Dr Noreen Adil
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