UCBM in the Permanent Conference of Masters Directors
Giuseppe Tonini, Full Professor of Oncology UCBM and director of the UOC of Medical Oncology of the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital Foundation, is the new president of the Permanent Conference of Masters in Palliative Care and Pain Management, a body born in 2015 with the recognition of the Ministry of University and the Ministry of Health to define the training courses for professionals involved in the fight against suffering.
It will be joined by Maria Grazia De MarinisProfessor of Nursing Sciences UCBM and director of the Palliative Care Center "Together in Care"; Grace Armento, oncologist and palliative care doctor at the "Together in Care" Palliative Care Center together with Guido Biasco, Paola Di Giulio, Massimo Ingrassia, Francesco Onida, Giorgio Perilongo and Filomena Puntillo.
"The conference – said Tonini, who in UCBM he is also the director of the II level Master in palliative care and pain therapy – has every intention of proposing itself as a reference structure for the design of a training that synchronizes pre- and post-graduate, also in the light of the newborn school of specialization in Medicine and Palliative Care, with the aim of bringing discussions and proposals for the development of a homogeneous and high level university education".
In this regard, a few days from the national palliative care day which occurs today 11 November, teachers from over 40 universities involved in training in palliative care met at the Ministry of University and Research with the aim of defining the training continuum transversal to all paths of the health professions in which the fight against suffering is an element cornerstone, also as regards the specialization school, a novelty introduced by the MUR last May and which at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma it is active with 5 seats.
"The perspective for the next five years – says Grazia Armento, secretary of the Conference and scientific coordinator of the II level Master in Palliative Care UCBM - will be to initiate an update on the critical issues that have emerged from the experience, establishing a close collaboration relationship with the Ministry of University and Research and the Ministry of Health, in order to obtain corrective actions and improvements in the master's programs aimed at doctors, nurses , psychologists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists. This from the point of view of palliative care which sees interdisciplinary university training as the winning strategy for responding to the needs of the patient and family members, in the belief that the fight against suffering - inspired by law 38 of 2010 - is a collective enterprise".
