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Title: Improving End of Life Care: A Faculty Development Course Book for Medical Educators
Author(s): David E. Weissman, MD
Reviewers write, "(This Faculty Development Course Book) is a substantive, comprehensive compendium that outlines a seven-week plan to introduce the science and art of palliative care to physicians and physicians in training". A variety of different teaching techniques are utilized, including case studies, role playing and didactics to assure the participation and interaction of the students with the instructor.
The course is divided into seven weeks which cover: the epidemiology of dying, Advanced Directives, communication skills, hospice, pain assessment, pain treatment, delirium and dyspnea, nausea/vomiting and constipation.
Reviewers note, "The course is presented much for the in-patient physician and less so for ambulatory or to emphasize, transition of care", however, they also state the Course Book is an "excellent document, comprehensive overview, up to date references".
To order the Course Book, GO TO the Medical College of Wisconsin Palliative Care Center Web site. 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: 8/2000
Format: Behaviorally Anchored Rating Form, Evaluation Forms, Handouts, Lecture Notes, MCQ Exam, Standardized Patient Case, Standardized Patient Materials, Self-Study Guide Book
Purpose: Program Evaluation, Learner Assessment, Self-Study Guide, Teaching
Audience(s)
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Training: Fellows, 3rd/4th Year Medical Students, PGY1 (Interns), PGY2-6, Physicians in Practice, Faculty Physicians |
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Specialty: Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Hematology/Oncology, Neurology, OB/GYN, Ophthalmology, Pulmonary/Critical Care, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Surgery |
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ACGME Competencies: Medical Knowledge, Patient Care
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 |
