Journal article
The Need for Improved End-of-Life Care Medical Education: Causes, Consequences, and Strategies for Enhancement and Integration
American journal of hospice & palliative medicine, v 41(1), pp 5-7
01 Jan 2024
PMID: 36854581
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
End-of-life (EOL) care is a unique area of medicine that emphasizes holistic patient-centered care. It requires clinicians to consider a patients' mental, emotional, spiritual, social and physical comforts and engage patients and their families in complex discussions and decisions. It is an area of medicine that requires sensitivity in communication in order to respond to a wide range of emotions from patients and their families. Given these intricacies, it is essential that healthcare professional trainees are exposed early in their careers so they can be better equipped to address EOL situations effectively. While many medical schools have integrated this important element in pre-clinical education, a formalized and standardized curriculum could allow for students to better engage in EOLcare scenarios that they will face as future physicians. In this editorial, we discuss potential strategies to incorporate EOL care didactics and experiential learning earlier in medical education as well as the consequences of inadequate EOL care education, particularly in medical schools, in its current state.
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- Title
- The Need for Improved End-of-Life Care Medical Education: Causes, Consequences, and Strategies for Enhancement and Integration
- Creators
- Rahim Hirani - New York Medical CollegeHassan Khuram - Drexel Univ, Coll Med, Philadelphia, PA USAAria Elahi - University of VermontParker Alan Maddox - Thomas Jefferson UniversityMaya Pandit - New York Medical CollegeAli Issani - Aga Khan UniversityMill Etienne - New York Medical College
- Publication Details
- American journal of hospice & palliative medicine, v 41(1), pp 5-7
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 3
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Medicine
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000941830300001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85150071863
- Other Identifier
- 991021861205904721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Health Care Sciences & Services