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Title: Improving End-of-Life Care: A Resource Guide for Physician Education, New 3rd Edition

Author(s): Weissman, DE, Ambuel, B and J Hallenbeck

This 142 page book was written for medical educators to use in teaching critical aspects of EOL care. The book is divided into 11 chapters, each chapter covers one domain (e.g. pain or Giving Bad News); within each chapter are extensive teaching outlines, a pretest, a content outline and either a case study of role playing exercise. An extensive educational reference list is included. This comprehensive book employs a variety of teaching methods to reach its intended educational goals. These goals include: 1. Prepare educators to teach about selected aspects of end-of-life to physicians at the clinical or post-graduate level. 2. Provide educators with specific teaching tools to run experiential exercises. 3. Provide educators with content outlines to be used in lecture or small group encounters. This comprehensive book will be an excellent resource for any end-of-life educator.

To Order the Guide, GO TO the Medical College of Wisconsin Palliative Care Center Web site and click on ORDER MATERIALS.

Or Contact: Rose Hackbarth , Hematology/Oncolgy Department, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Tel: 414/805-4607. E-Mail: rhackbar@mcw.edu.

Creation Date: 10/1999

Format: Behaviorally Anchored Rating Form, Cases, Computer Software, Course Syllabus, Handouts, Lecture Notes, Standardized Patient Case, Standardized Patient Materials

Purpose: Program Evaluation, Learner Assessment, Teaching

Audience(s)

	Training: Fellows, 3rd/4th Year Medical Students, PGY1 (Interns), PGY2-6, Physicians in Practice
	Specialty: Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Hematology/Oncology, Neurology, OB/GYN, Pulmonary/Critical Care, Psychiatry, Surgery
	Non-Physician: Nurses

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

Keyword(s): Addiction, Adult, Advance directives, Assisted suicide/euthanasia, Autopsy/organ donation, Cardio-pulminary, Care for children of dying adults, Care for dying children, Caring for families, Chronic non-malignant pain, 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, Informed consent, Medicare hospice benefit, Metabolic, Musculoskeletal, Negotiating treatment goals, Neurologic, Oral/communication, Pain, Pain assessment, Pain treatment, Personal reflection, Post-death family care, Professional burnout, Prognosis, Psychiatric, Quality of life, Skin/lymphatic, Spirituality, Terminal care, Treatment withdrawal/withholding