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Title: Experiences of Fourth-Year Students with Patients at the End of Life

Author(s): Susan Block, MD

This questionnaire was designed to assess 4th year medical students' end of life learning experiences on the wards and their attitudes towards experiences at Harvard Medical School. This data will improve educators understanding of 4th year medical students' needs as they begin caring for dying patients.

The 8-page survey explores issues of both the technological/scientific and the social/emotional aspects of patient care. Students are asked to report the amount of medical intervention that the patients they have cared for have received and how prepared they feel for various end-of-life situations including breaking bad news, managing pain, and having a DNR discussion.

Reviewers wrote, "See no need for any substantive change to this evaluation tool."

For more information regarding this evaluation contact author:
Susan Block, MD
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 617/632-6179 Fax: 617/632-6180
Susan_Block@dfci.harvard.edu

Creation Date: 7/1997

Format: Evaluation Forms

Purpose: Program Evaluation, Learner Assessment

Audience(s)

ACGME Competencies: Patient Care

Keyword(s): Advance directives, Antibiotics, Assisted suicide/euthanasia, Autopsy/organ donation, Blood products, Cardio- pulminary, Clinical interventions, Communications skills, Constitutional, Cross-cultural care, Death pronouncement, Decision making capacity/surrogates, Discussing hospice care, Do not rescucitate orders, Ethics, Family conference, Gastrointestinal, Giving bad news, Hydration, Informed consent, Interventional procedures, Metabolic, Musculoskeletal, Negotiating treatment goals, Neurologic, Non-oral feeding, Non-pain symptoms/disorders/syndromes, Oral/communication, Pain assessment, Pain treatment, Personal reflection, Prognosis, Psychiatric, Radiation or chemotherapy, Rehabilitation, Sexuality and reproduction, Skin/lymphatic, Surgery, Treatment withdrawal/withholding