Traveling Scholars Program Report
Jeniffer Baque, DR
Travel date: March 6, 2024
Name of Meeting/Event/Activity: XI Congreso Latino americano de Cuidados Paliativos
Origin: Manta, Ecuador / Destination: Cartagena, Colombia
How will you new knowledge & acquired skills help in furthering your work in hospice and palliative care in your program/city/ or country?
Research should focus on identifying unmet needs and future challenges. As well as proposing a mentoring and training program on palliative care from the undergraduate level, I was able to talk with Latin American doctors from Colombia and Bolivia and they basically focus when carrying out their research on identifying palliative needs in their hospitals using instruments such as the NECPAL.
What were the three main takeaways from this conference/event
Latin America united in palliative care, indicates that the development of palliative care in Latin America is still scarce and irregular, so it is necessary to continue raising awareness among public policy decision makers at the national level, health personnel, international organizations, national NGOs. and international and community to achieve the desired growth.
It is essential to promote the holding and participation in a congress like this to help make palliative care visible among professionals and in society, as well as to create and maintain the palliative care community at the national, Latin American and global levels.
Identify current problems and problem-solving strategies, skills, and previous enabling experiences in patient care
Did you attend a session or workshop on advocacy? If yes, how do plan to build or improve collaborative relationships with your current government officials?
No
Did you attend a session or workshop on improving availability and access to medicines for palliative care? If yes, describe how you plan to improve the availability and safe and rational use of medicines in palliative care in your institution, city, or country
No
Did you attend a session or workshop on education in palliative care? If applicable, describe how you plan to enact changes to curricula in your academic institution
I attended the workshop: Complex families and the care crisis in Latin America: the challenge of reviewing informal care in palliative care. In which I learned that interdisciplinary is the intervention that provides knowledge for a joint construction that can provide a higher quality response to the needs of patients, family members and community members, affirming that social support goes beyond the objective (how many actors are involved) to consider what is
perceived. , the subjective: how useful, satisfactory and appropriate the support that you say you receive from the professional, family and community environment is.
Did you attend any sessions or workshops on research in palliative care? If so, describe ways you will enact what you learned in your research projects
No
Did you submit an abstract for a poster and/or an oral presentation and if so was/were they accepted? What was/were the title(s)?
Yes, Level of knowledge of health professionals about palliative care in the emergency of a cancer hospital.
Oral Presentation: We were 4 people who created the poster, which addressed: a) what Palliative Care is; b) previous training in this discipline (mainly, if someone had received training at the university); c) different types of drugs usually administered in the service (morphine was specifically discussed); study carried out in an emergency area, I was able to notice that there is a lack of knowledge related to this branch, it is complex to be able to train professionals who know palliative care from the undergraduate level since it is not included in the curriculum, public health policies must be created on how to include this branch, which is pending approval, and in conjunction with the Ecuadorian palliative care association it is being developed.
Do you have any suggestions on how you think the IAHPC Scholarship Program can be improved to help future scholars?
More publicity could be made regarding scholarships at congresses related to palliative care