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American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, Vol. 19, No. 5, 338-343 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/104990910201900511
© 2002 SAGE Publications

Antemortem care in an afternoon: A successful four-hour curriculum for third-year medical students

W. Clay Jackson, MD, DipTh

Department of Family Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee

Pamela D. Connor, PhD

Department of Family Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee

Laura Tavernier, MD, MEd

Department of Family Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee

Numerous well-designed studies have shown that patients near the end of life often receive substandard palliative care. Medical students have expressed a strong interest in antemortem care; however, palliative medicine education remains poorly integrated into the overall curriculum at most medical institutions in the United States. In response to this need, a palliative medicine curriculum has been developed for medical students in the required third-year clerkship in family medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center. The implementation of this curriculum resulted in a statistically significant increase in student competence (as measured by a standardized pretest and post-test) and a significant trend in student confidence (as measured by a single-item Likert scale). The curriculum was popular with students, and encouraged many of them to request hospice clinical experiences during their family medicine clerkship, or to register for the elective fourth-year clerkship in palliative medicine.

Key Words: antemortem care • endof-life care • medical education • medical students • palliative care education • palliative medicine


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