Course Description & Objectives:
- Appreciation of the holistic approach to patient care and management.
- Effect of demographic, social, family, environmental, psychological and emotional factors in disease.
- Role of the family in patient care.
- The terminally ill patient and pain relief in terminal disease, counselling a patient and family in case of cancer, HIV, non-curable neurological disease etc.
- Resuscitation of a patient.
- Decision making in unresuscitable patients, stopping life support.
- Social factors in medicine, refusing physicians advice like in blood transfusion, bereavement, the dying patient.
- Handling unrealistic/unfeasible patient and relative demands.
- Handling VIPs and the very rich, private patients.
- Improved skills in teaching the art and science of internal medicine.
