Educational Material Details

Title: Medical Ethics and Palliative Medicine--Course Syllabus

Author(s): Derse, Art MD, JD; Weissman, David E MD

The Medical Ethics and Palliative Medicine Course is a syllabus for a 10-week required course for 2nd year students at the Medical College of Wisconsin. The course is organized as a 1.5-hour didactic experience followed by a 1.5-hour small group learning experience weekly. The course material includes:

1) A Student Manual distributed to all 200 students each year, and
2) A Faculty Guide for the 40 small group facilitators.

Facilitators include physicians, nurses, health lawyers, ethicists, clergy, psychologists and social workers.

Reviewers write, "elements of this curriculum are of high quality, especially Dr. Weissman's materials in Week 6, and the concept and plan for experiential learning about giving bad news".

To order the guide, contact Rose Hackbarth , Hematology/Oncolgy Department, Medical College of Wisconsin. Tel: 414/805-4607.

Creation Date: 8/2000

Format: Behaviorally Anchored Rating Form, Cases, Course Syllabus, Evaluation Forms, Handouts, Lecture Notes, Standardized Patient Case, Standardized Patient Materials, Self-Study Guide Book

Purpose: Program Evaluation, Learner Assessment, Self-Study Guide, Teaching

Audience(s)

	Training: 1st/2nd Year Medical Students
	Specialty: Pre-Clinical Medical Students
	Non-Physician: Clergy/Chaplains, General Public, Graduate Students, Lawyers, Patients/Families, Nurses, Social Workers

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

Keyword(s): Adult, Advance directives, Age, Assisted suicide/euthanasia, Autopsy/organ donation, Care for children of dying adults, Care for dying children, Caring for families, Communications skills, 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, Hydration, Informed consent, Interventional procedures, Medicare hospice benefit, Negotiating treatment goals, Non-oral feeding, Pediatric, Personal reflection, Post-death family care, Professional burnout, Prognosis, Quality of life, Spirituality, Terminal care, Treatment withdrawal/withholding