EFIC Pain School on Cancer Pain and Palliative Care
General information
20-23 May 2025
Maribor, Slovenia
Course Organisers: Nevenka Krčevski-Škvarc, Božena Jerković-Parać, Maja Elbert-Moltara
Faculty:
Prof. Bart Morlion, MD, PHD
Prof. Brona Fullen MD, PHD
Prof. Andreas Kopf MD PHD
Prof. Magdalena Kocot Kepska MD PHD
Prof. Rudolf Likar MD PHD
Prof. Manohar Sharma MD PHD
Prof. Degi L Chaba
Assist. Prof. Stefan Wirz
Focus of this EFIC Pain School:
This inter-professional school will focus on:
- pain management for patients with cancer and those surviving cancer
- palliative care for patients with cancer.
The school aims to develop skills of assessing and treating pain in patients with cancer disease. The emphasis is on a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to manage pain originated from cancer and its treatment. The program of the school aligns with the EFIC Curricula and is designed as interactive with lectures, practical sessions, case presentations, videos, interview and surveys. The lecturers from all over Europe are experts in the field of pain medicine, oncology and palliative care.
Main topics:
- Cancer related Pain– epidemiology of cancer pain, identification of age and sociocultural influences on the perception and experience of cancer and of cancer related pain
- Compare and management of different types of pain clinical assessment of cancer pain-neurophysiological mechanism contributing to the experience of pain
- Assessment of cancer pain: breakthrough pain and persistent background pain, incident pain, bone pain, soft tissue pain, visceral pain, assessment and therapy for emergencies related with carcinoma pain
- The role of physiotherapy and rehabilitation in patient of cancer
- Role of cancer therapies in the management of cancer – related pain including radiotherapy, radiopharmaceuticals, chemotherapy, immune therapy and surgery
- Management of acute pain in cancer patients, including diagnostic interventions and therapeutic interventions
- Discus and active collaboration with lecturers in management of post- chemotherapy and post- radiotherapy pain
- Interventional procedure in the management of cancer pain.
- Management of pain associated with cancer, pain in cancer survivors
- Palliative and End of life care
- Palliative mobile team care– experiences and recommendation for organisations (national, international lecture)
Target Audience
All professions involved in pain management of patients with cancer, cancer survivors and palliative care.
Learning Outcomes
- Be able to understand cancer pain
- Be informed on the approaches for cancer pain management
- Discuss the use of conventional and adjuvant analgesics
- Discuss the meaning and significance of thew WHO analgesic ladder
- Be able to recognize the need and principles of palliative care
- Recognise the need for team management and inter-disciplinary collaboration
- Recognise the problems faced by cancer survivors and management principles
How to apply
Application for this EFIC Pain School is now open. The deadline is on 7 February 2025.
- Please note that for this pain school, your level of English needs to be at least C1 or higher according to the CEFR standard.
- EFIC offer 15 places for this Pain School free of charge via a grant. For the chosen 15 applicants, all teaching and related activities are provided free of charge, along with accommodation and meals. The only significant cost these applicants should expect to pay is their travel.
- Participation in the school is also possible as self-paying attendee. The fee is 900€ and includes lectures, learning material, meals during breaks, lunches and dinner. Please contact Božena Jerković- Parać MD, szzb.predsednik@gmail.com to find out more.
- As EFIC Pain Schools aim to focus specifically on interprofessionalism, applications from nurses and physiotherapists are especially encouraged.
- All applications are evaluated by the European Pain Federation EFIC® Committee on Education and approved by the Executive Board.
