Qualification awarded (in original language)

Postgraduate Training in Continuing Care

Level of qualification

Professional qualification.

Admission requirements

Holders of a bachelor degree or equivalent in Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Business Sciences;
Holders of a foreign academic degree conferred following a 1st cycle of studies, organized according to the Bologna model for an adherent State to this process;
Holders of a foreign academic bachelor degree that is recognized as suitable to the objectives of a bachelor degree by the Scientific Council in each school;
Holders of an academic, scientific and / or professional curriculum that is recognized as attesting the ability to attend the course, by the Technical and Scientific.

Recognition of prior learning

---

Qualification requirements and regulations

---

The holders of this course are allowed to develop an expertise Professional activity.

Profile of the programme

---
 Health and Social Protection; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Business Sciences.

Key learning outcomes

It is intended that, at the end of the course, the trainee will be able to:
• Understand the principles of palliative care;
• Determine the needs of a patient in palliative and family care;
• Recognize the problem of suffering at the end of life;
• Know and apply the principles of symptomatic control;
• Identify and monitor the most frequent symptoms of terminal illness;
• Discriminate care for the patient and family in the last days and hours of life;
• Recognize the normal evolution of mourning;
• Identify the situations of pathological mourning
• Understanding the basic skills of communicating with end-of-life patients
• To know the most frequent problematic situations in the communication with end-of-life patients and their relatives (transmission of bad news, transmission of the prognosis, request for conspiracy of silence)
• Apply ethical principles in the analysis of key ethical issues related to the end of life.

Occupational profiles of graduates

---

Access to further studies

The course allows the students to continue to the 2nd and 3rd cycles according to the diagram of Portuguese Higher Education System.

Graduation requirements

---

Examination regulations, assessment and grading

---

Mode of study

Full-time.

Programme director

Maria Jose Almendra Rodrigues Gomes (

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

---

Scientific areas of the study plan

Scientific Area	Acronym	ECTS Credits
		Compulsory	Optional
Business Sciences	BC	5.0	0.0
Health and Social Protection	HSP	30.0	0.0
Social and Behavioral Sciences	SBC	10.0	0.0
Total		45.0	0.0

Course structure

Year	Sem	Type	Code	Course Unit	Scientific Area	ECTS Credits
1	1	Semestral	5037-513-1101-00-15	---	HSP	5.0
1	1	Semestral	5037-513-1102-00-15	---	SBC	5.0
1	1	Semestral	5037-513-1103-00-13	---	HSP	6.0
1	1	Semestral	5037-513-1104-00-15	---	SBC	5.0
1	1	Semestral	5037-513-1105-00-15	---	BC	5.0
1	1	Semestral	5037-513-1106-00-15	---	HSP	4.0
1	2	Semestral	5037-513-1201-00-15	---	HSP	15.0

Accreditation/Register

---