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“What do college students & nursing home residents take away from a summer immersed in palliative care?”

Shaw, Ashley; Schaefer, Kristen; Lechich, Anthony; Pollack, Robert

Medical trainees continue to receive inconsistent formal training in palliative care and end-of-life issues, particularly in the outpatient, hospice, and nursing home settings that many patients utilize at the end of life. As U.S. medical students continue to matriculate with increasing amounts of clinical exposure prior to medical school and preclinical curricula are shortened, earlier exposure to end-of-life issues may better prepare students to assist with the challenges faced by seriously ill or dying patients during their clinical rotations and beyond. Although research has been performed to identify palliative care competencies for medical students, residents, and fellows, no studies have been performed to evaluate undergraduate college internships with clinical exposure to these populations to identify appropriate competencies.

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Biological Sciences
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September 13, 2024