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Title: Medical Education in End of Life Care: Fourth Year Student Survey

Author(s): Susan Block, MD; Amy Sullivan, EdD

This evaluation tool, designed as part of an assessment of Harvard Medical School and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is a telephone survey to be used with 4th year medical students. It covers experiences in medical school regarding attitudes and issues in end of life care. Reviewers wrote, "A very comprehensive interview - covered a wide breadth of topic areas. Fairly straight forward for both the interviewer and the interviewee".

For a copy of this evaluation contact:
Wendy Katz, MPH
Program Coordinator
Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care
Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit Street, Founders House 606
Boston, MA 02114
Tel: 617-724-9509
Fax: 617-724-8693
WKATZ@PARTNERS.ORG

Creation Date: 2/2001

Format: Evaluation Forms

Purpose: Program Evaluation, Learner Assessment

Audience(s)

Keyword(s): Addiction, Advance directives, Assisted suicide/euthanasia, Autopsy/organ donation, Care for children of dying adults, Care for dying children, Caring for families, Chronic non-malignant pain, Communications skills, Controlled substance regulations, Cross-cultural care, Death pronouncement, Decision making capacity/surrogates, Discussing hospice care, Do not rescucitate orders, Ethics, Family conference, Giving bad news, Grief/bereavement, Home care benefit, Hope, Informed consent, Medicare hospice benefit, Negotiating treatment goals, Pain, Pain assessment, Pain treatment, Personal reflection, Post-death family care, Professional burnout, Prognosis, Quality of life, Spirituality, Terminal care, Treatment withdrawal/withholding