The Mário Penna Institute’s Medical Residency Committee (COREME) has been holding virtual Multidisciplinary Meetings with the aim of promoting discussions of clinical cases attended at the institution and, thus, providing the physicians with updates.
According to Dr. Ellias Lima, oncologist and Coordinator of COREME, the objective is to bring the clinical staff together, promote medical residency, plan treatments in a multidisciplinary way, update and promote knowledge. The meeting is online on a remote digital platform and involves resident physicians, assistant physicians and preceptors. They take place once a month, with educational support from the pharmaceutical industry.
The last meetings were on the following topics:
– 07/27: “Polytreated castration-resistant metastatic prostate cancer, state of the art in 2021, with the participation of Dr. Ellias Lima (Oncology Coordinator at IMP), Dr. Ana Carolina Pimenta (Oncologist at IMP) and Dr. Marta Rezende (Nuclear Physician at IMP). The meeting was supported by the Astrazeneca laboratory.
– 04/08: “Update on the treatment of advanced platinum sensitive ovarian cancer”, with the participation of Dr. Bárbara Marques (Clinical Oncologist at IMP), Dr. Suellen Peixoto (Gynecological Surgeon at IMP), Dr. Irsael Vilaça (Oncologist at IMP) and Dr. Oscar Araújo (Diagnostic Coordinator at Astrazeneca). Her meeting was supported by the Astrazeneca laboratory.
Instituto Mário Penna invests in the improvement of its clinical staff to increasingly provide a humanized, recognized and excellent service to its thousands of cancer patients.
“Despite the pandemic and the care it requires, we don’t forget the patients here. We’ve been working for 35 years helping those in need and somehow we had to do something at that time. This delivery to do good is very rewarding”; emphasizes José Maurício.
A research volunteer, also known as a research participant, is a person who agrees to use a new drug that is in the testing phase and that may be beneficial for the treatment of cancer. The identification of potential volunteers is carried out by the team of oncologists who indicate those who can participate in the studies. For this invitation it is necessary to check three fundamental points:
The action was carried out with clothes donated by Instituto Galo. The Solidarity Clothesline was conceived and monitored by the Services Manager, Sérgio Lopes Magalhães, who insisted on taking care of all the details.
“In the last year, after the start of the Covid pandemic, due to the fear of the new and isolation, the losses in all areas and the deaths experienced, the number of mental illnesses increased and, consequently, the number of self-extermination attempts. Aware of this context, we thought of a campaign aimed at the eyes of our employees: an empathetic, non-judgmental and humanized look, where we will try to guide on how to identify risk and prevention factors, inform how to help a colleague or even a family member, where to seek help and engage everyone in this cause to reduce psychological distress and the suicide rate”; explains Gizelle Mesquita, Coordinator of Humanization and Hospital Psychology.