Interprofessional Psychosocial Oncology: Introduction to Theory and Practice

Graduate

This course is required for the graduate diploma in Advanced Practice Oncology/Palliative Care. It is also open to other students from any discipline enrolled in Masters of PhD program to take as an unspecified graduate course. It provides graduate students with an introduction to the field of psychosocial oncology. Emphasis is placed on understanding and interpreting the experience of cancer informed by theory, evidence and illness narratives. This course also emphasises an understanding of the illness experience and assists the student to assess distress and coping from a family centred perspective. This course draws on a case-based, narrative format and provides opportunities to learn in small groups of interprofessional learners drawn from across Canada.