• The Role of Palliative Care in Surgery
• Basic Pain and Symptom Management
• Communication with Seriously Ill Patients and their Families/Caregivers
• Ethical Principles in Decision Making for Seriously Ill Surgical Patients

• Anaesthesiology Considerations in Serious Illness
• Palliative Surgery in Gastrointestinal Cancers
• Chronic Limb Threatening Ischemia 101
• Overview of Surgery in Head and Neck Cancers
• Grief and Bereavement 101

1. Understand the integration of palliative care principles and practice in seriously ill surgical patients.
2. Explain basic management of pain and common symptoms in care of seriously ill surgical patients.
3. Use the Serious Illness Guide to elicit patients’ understanding, values and goals.
4. Apply the “best-case and worst-case scenario” communication tool for discussing surgical treatment options
5. Apply ethical principles using the Jonsen’s Four-Box Approach to guide complex decision making
   

Learners will access materials such as videos, animated presentations, readings, assessments on the Learning Management System (LMS) at their own pace and time.

Learners have access to the materials for one month upon successful registration.

The online self-paced learning is supplemented by an online forum that will address any questions and comments at the end of the course.

Learners who completed SPLICES Online are eligible to sign up for the 0.5 day Face-to-Face SPLICES Workshop in which communication skills and ethical principles in decision making are applied in role play, case studies and panel discussion. Email lcpc@duke-nus.edu.sg if you are interested to find out more. 

Interested learners please register and purchase the course via the Duke-NUS Course Catalogue here. 
*For learners from local healthcare institutions (Singapore), kindly submit your registration here

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Accreditation
Submission of continuing education credits (CPE/CME) for fully asynchronous courses is to be done by learners through their respective accreditation boards upon course completion

Certification
Course participants will be awarded with an e-Certificate of Attendance at the end of the course*.

*The e-Certificate of Attendance will only be awarded to participants via the Learning Management System upon completion of all coursework (including assessments and evaluation)

• Healthcare professionals in surgical settings (medical, nursing, allied health)

• Registered Healthcare Professionals