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End-of-Life Care Curriculum for Medical Teachers |
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Until recently, end-of-life care (ELC) has been neglected in physician training. A number of studies show serious deficiencies in end-of-life care, both in the U.S. and in other countries. This has resulted in bad dying experiences for patients, their families, physicians and other health care workers. With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Stanford Faculty Development Center (SFDC) developed a 16-hour faculty development course incorporating basic material designed to be used by physicians in any area of expertise. This web-based curriculum is an adaptation of materials developed for that course. The overall goals of the End-of-Life Care Curriculum for Medical Teachers are to enhance physician skills in ELC, foster a commitment to improving care for the dying, improve the dying experience for patients, families, and health care providers, and improve teaching related to ELC. Originally each topic was designed to be covered in a two-hour interactive and didactic seminar. You may wish to teach only portions of a seminar or to use parts of the material in different combinations. Please familiarize yourself with the section "How to use this curriculum" in the Teacher's Handbook to help you make the most of the instructional methods for potential challenges in teaching that particular segment of the material. The web version also includes links to relevant portions of the online version of the companion book, "Palliative Care Perspectives," by James Hallenbeck, MD. The book text provides an additional level of detail that complements the higher-level teaching points included in the PowerPoint slides. |
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These presentations were developed through a grant to the Stanford Faculty Development Center from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. They are distributed with permission through the Inter-Institutional Collaborating Network On End-of-life Care (IICN) which links major organizations internationally. All content is Copyright © 2003 by The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford Faculty Development Center, Stanford University School of Medicine. All rights reserved. You may download single copies of these presentations at no charge for non-commercial use. If you download a presentation you may use it before an audience so long as you give credit to the actual authors and disclose to your audience the web address from which you downloaded it. Because changes may be made to these materials to keep them current or improve them in other ways, you may not redistribute this content by copying, cloning, syndicating, or mirroring this web site. This content may be cited by including the date when you downloaded it, as in this example as recommended by the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA style): Stanford Faculty Development Center, 'End-of-Life Care Curriculum for Medical Teachers [Internet]'. 2003, <http://www.growthhouse.org/stanford/index.html> [accessed 10 February 2006] |
book by palliative care expert James Hallenbeck makes an excellent companion text for the curriculum. It was developed in parallel with the teaching materials and provides a greater level of detail on topics that are summarized in the PowerPoint presentations.