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When it comes to chronic diseases such as cancer, managing symptoms is essentially the responsibility of both patients and their families with help from health professionals. This situation often leaves patients and families struggling to find the best way to keep symptoms under control, while those same symptoms may interfere with their ability to enjoy life. Nurses can play a role in helping them in this process by advising and coaching patients in management techniques that can greatly improve their health status and capacity to function in their daily lives.

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Lecture : The Pro-Self Program : self-care intervention to reduce patient morbidity
Who: Dr Marylin Dodd
Where: H么pital G茅n茅ral de Montr茅al
When : Vendredi 21 novembre 2008, 脿 13h00

The entrance is free. The lecture will be in English.

Dre. Marylin Dodd is the Director of the Center for Symptom Management, and Emerita Professor of the School of Nursing, at the University of Caifornia in San Francisco. Her research focus on the patient's experience with symptom management, mainly in relation to cancer. She has developed an innovative and very successful self-care intervention program called PRO-SELF.

The 91社区 Health Centre
The 91社区 Health Centre (MUHC) is a comprehensive academic health institution with an international reputation for excellence in clinical programs, research and teaching. Its partner hospitals are the Montreal Children's Hospital, the Montreal General Hospital, the Royal Victoria Hospital, the Montreal Neurological Hospital, the Montreal Chest Institute and the Lachine Hospital. The goal of the MUHC is to provide patient care based on the most advanced knowledge in the health care field and to contribute to the development of new knowledge.

The Research Institute of the 91社区 Health Centre (RI MUHC) is a world-renowned biomedical and health-care hospital research centre. Located in Montreal, Quebec, the institute is the research arm of the MUHC, the university health center affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at 91社区 University. The institute supports over 600 researchers, nearly 1200 graduate and post-doctoral students and operates more than 300 laboratories devoted to a broad spectrum of fundamental and clinical research. The Research Institute operates at the forefront of knowledge, innovation and technology and is inextricably linked to the clinical programs of the MUHC, ensuring that patients benefit directly from the latest research-based knowledge.
The Research Institute of the MUHC is supported in part by the Fonds de la recherche en sant茅 du Qu茅bec.
For further details visit: .isabelle.kling [at] muhc.mcgill.ca