Educational Material Details

Title: 3rd year Medical Student Palliative Care Curriculum: Medical College of Wisconsin

Author(s): Linda Blust, MD; David E. Weissman, MD

3rd year Medical Student Palliative Care Curriculum: Medical College of Wisconsin At the Medical College of Wisconsin, all third year medical students participate in a Palliative Care experience during their one month Internal Medicine Ambulatory rotation. The experience includes multiple dimensions such as patient care assessment, self-study materials, surveys of knowledge, self confidence and concerns and a small group workshop.

This comprehensive submission contains the self study material--a booklet of resource information designed to improve knowledge of the core domains of palliative care through self study as well as detailed descriptions of the student's half day experience and patient assessment, the take home examination, a sample palliative care patient work up, objectives for the hospice/palliative care visit and evaluation forms for agency staff to complete on the students).

Reviewers commented, the guide was "excellent for quick information or as a refresher of the topic. Good for teaching students".

CONTACT:

Linda Blust at lblust@mcw.edu; 414 805-4607.

Creation Date: 6/2003

Format: Course Syllabus, Evaluation Forms, Handouts, MCQ Exam

Purpose: Instructional Aid, Learner Assessment, Self-Study Guide, Teaching

Audience(s)

	Training: 3rd/4th Year Medical Students
	Specialty: General Internal Medicine
	Non-Physician:

ACGME Competencies: Interpersonal and Communication Skills, Medical Knowledge, Patient Care, Professionalism, Practice-based Learning and Improvement, System-based Practice

Keyword(s): Addiction, Advance directives, Antibiotics, Assisted suicide/euthanasia, Autopsy/organ donation, Blood products, Cardio-pulminary, Care for children of dying adults, Care for dying children, Caring for families, Chronic non-malignant pain, Clinical interventions, Communications skills, Constitutional, Controlled substance regulations, Cross-cultural care, Death pronouncement, Decision making capacity/surrogates, Discussing hospice care, Do not rescucitate orders, Ethics, Family conference, Gastrointestinal, Giving bad news, Grief/bereavement, Home care benefit, Hope, Hydration, Informed consent, Interventional procedures, Medicare hospice benefit, Metabolic, Musculoskeletal, Negotiating treatment goals, Neurologic, Non-oral feeding, Non-pain symptoms/disorders/syndromes, Oral/communication, Pain, Pain assessment, Pain treatment, Personal reflection, Post-death family care, Professional burnout, Prognosis, Psychiatric, Quality of life, Radiation or chemotherapy, Rehabilitation, Sexuality and reproduction, Skin/lymphatic, Spirituality, Surgery, Terminal care, Treatment withdrawal/withholding