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Supportive cancer care, psycho-oncology, ethics and palliative care - Level 2

Care and support for cancer patients in a variety of palliative situations at the end of life.

Please note: former title "Palliative care and ethics".

  • Type of training
    Diploma course
  • Diplôme
    DESIU
  • Target audience
    Doctor
    Paramedical
  • Discipline
    Oncology
  • Duration
    1 year
  • Teachers in charge
    Pr Sébastien SALAS
  • School
    Medicine
  • Présentation de la formation

    Pedagogical objectives

    Pedagogical objectives
    • Historical, legal and socio-organizational aspects of palliative care in France;
    • symptom management and treatment, supportive oncology care and palliative situations, psychology, the helping relationship and the humanistic approach, diversity of situations (extreme situations and ethics of care), palliative care research, spirituality and arthropy, ethics
    • .


    Share teaching experience in palliative care between partner universities in the South of France.

    Tackle the issue of palliative care through a multidisciplinary, medico-social, psychological, ethical and legal approach:

    • to ensure better quality of care for people with a serious progressive pathology and/or at the end of life;
    • to enable the acquisition of skills in the field of palliative care with a view to networking and interdisciplinary work;
    • to promote teaching, research and social debate on the issue of medicine in the face of palliative care and the end of

    life.

    Partners

    Partners
    • University of Nice

    Further information

    Further information

    Minimum 4-week internship in the 1st year, in a specific palliative care facility or in a care department for palliative or end-of-life patients, approved by the educational supervisor.

  • Autorisation pédagogique

    Eligibility

    Eligibility
    • Completion of the DESU "Soins oncologiques de support, psycho-oncologie, éthique et soins palliatifs" (level 1).

    Educational information and admission authorizations

    Educational information and admission authorizations

    Teacher in charge
    Professor Sébastien

    SALASContact
    Catherine BOUTTEFEUX
    Tel: 04 91 38 73 77
    Email: catherine.bouttefeux@ap-hm.fr

  • Inscription administrative

    Registration

    Administrative registration information:

    Email: umfcs-desu@univ-amu.fr
    Fatma FATHI
    Tél : 04 91 32 45 91
    Marine HANAOUI
    Tél : 04 91 32 46 48
    Annie DESCHAMPS
    Tél : 04 91 32 43 25
    Audrey GROSSI
    Tél : 04 91 32 45 80Unité

    mixte de formation continue en santé (UMFCS)
    Bureau des DU
    Faculté des sciences médicales et paramédicales

    Aix-Marseille

    Université
    27 bd Jean Moulin
    13385 Marseille cedex 05

  • Informations pratiques

    Training mode

    Training mode
    Presential

    Rates

    Rates
    • Initial training: 334 euros per
    • yearContinuing
    • training
    • : 1,069 euros per year