End-of-life care : a multimodal and comprehensive curriculum for graduating medical students utilizing experiential learning opportunities

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JEFFERS, Justin M. | BORD, Sharon | HOOPER, Jody E. | FLEISHMAN, Carol | CAYEA, Danelle | GARIBALDI, Brian

Introduction: End-of-life (EOL) care is an essential skill for most physicians and health care providers, yet there continues to be an educational gap in medical education literature for these skills. The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine developed the Transition to Residency, Internship, and Preparation for Life Events (TRIPLE) curriculum with the primary goal of preparing graduating medical students for life after medical school. Methods: The EOL module was one of many within the TRIPLE curriculum and consisted of two half-day sessions that targeted EOL care, death, dying, and communication skills. The first half-day session focused on a standardized patient encounter where learners initiated and completed an EOL care goals conversation around a living will. The second half-day session focused on death and dying. It included didactic sessions on organ donation, autopsy/death certificates, a simulation-based learning session on ending a resuscitation, and a standardized patient encounter where learners disclosed the death of a loved one. End-of-day and end-of-course evaluations were collected via anonymous online surveys. Results: In 2019, 120 students and 26 instructors participated in TRIPLE. Students rated the EOL module overall as 4.6 of 5 (SD = 0.6) and rated instructors overall as 4.6 of 5 (SD = 0.6). Discussion: By implementing a thorough and diverse curriculum with a variety of modalities and targeted skills, learners may be better prepared to care for patients dealing with EOL care issues. Further, the generalization of these skills may assist learners in a variety of other aspects of patient and family care.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8076371/

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