The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Updates in Hospice and Palliative Care and Intensive Physician Board Review 2025

1. Overview
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Updates in Hospice and Palliative Care and Intensive Physician Board Review 2025 provides a comprehensive curriculum to prepare clinicians for board certification while delivering the latest updates in palliative medicine. The program focuses on advanced symptom management, complex pain control, ethical considerations, and disease-specific palliative care strategies.
Caring for patients with advanced-stage cancer poses challenges for healthcare teams, necessitating attention to medical, psychosocial, ethical, and spiritual needs. The Board Review Course is designed to equip physicians with the knowledge and competence in Palliative Medicine, preparing them for the ABIM Hospice and Palliative (HPM) exam.
Course Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 8:00 AM – Thursday, September 18, 2025, 5:35 PM, MD Anderson – Virtual
2. Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to:

Analyze the spiritual, legal, and medical challenges confronting patients at the end of life.
Deliver optimal end-of-life care encompassing state-of-the-art pain management, symptom control, and psychosocial support.
Illustrate effective communication techniques with patients in advanced stages of cancer or debilitating disease, offering high-quality end-of-life care.

3. Target Audience

Best for palliative care physicians and oncologists who want updates on advanced symptom management, ethical care, and complex pain control.
Target Audience
Specialties – Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Professions – Other, Physician (MD or DO), Student or Trainee

4. Topics

Adjuvants for Pain Management

Cachexia

Cancer Treatment Toxicities- Chemotherapy, Radiation Therapy, Targeted Therapy, and Immunotherapy – Sonal Admane, MD

Challenging Conversations in Palliative Care

Delirium, and Opioid-Induced Neurotoxicity

Disease Specific Palliative Care I- Cardiac and Renal

Disease Specific Palliative Care II- Neurological, AIDS

Dyspnea and Cough

Ethical and Legal Decision Making

Fatigue

Geriatric Palliative Care

Grief & Bereavement

ICU II; and Ventilator Weaning – Kevin Madden, MD

Integrative Approaches to Manage Pain – Larry Driver, MD

Interdisciplinary team, Professionalism, Quality Improvement, Compliance, and Burnout – Suresh Reddy, MD

Interventions for the Management of Cancer Pain

Lunch- Meet the Professor – 01

Lunch- Meet the Professor- Pain Management and Opioid Case Discussions

Lunch- Meet the Professor

Management of Anxiety-Depression at the End-of-Life

Medicare Hospice Benefit

Medication Interactions – Matthew Clark, PharmD

Nausea-Constipation-Bowel Obstruction

Opioid Rotation

Opioid Safety, Non-Medical Opioid Use, and Risk Mitigation Strategies – Joseph Arthur MD

Opioids for Pain Management

Pain- Assessment and Principles

Palliative Care Emergencies

Palliative Care in the ICU – Kevin Madden, MD

Palliative Care in the Last Week of Life

Pediatric Palliative Care II – Kevin Madden, MD

Pediatric Palliative Care

Prognostication

Sleep Disturbance – Sriram Yennu MD

Spiritual Care

Welcome Introduction and General Overview of Course- How to Take the Exam

Wound Care-Pressure — Ulcers-Pruritis-Xerostomia