Improving Student Comfort with Death and Dying Discussions through Facilitated Family Encounters

Autor/inn/en	Schillerstrom, Jason E.; Sanchez-Reilly, Sandra; O'Donnell, Louise
Titel	Improving Student Comfort with Death and Dying Discussions through Facilitated Family Encounters
Quelle	In: Academic Psychiatry, 36 (2012) 3, S.188-190 (3 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1042-9670
DOI	10.1176/appi.ap.10020032
Schlagwörter	Medical Education; Medical Students; Speech Communication; Group Discussion; Learning Activities; Psychiatry; Family Attitudes; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Medizinische Ausbildung; Gruppendiskussion; Lernaktivität; Psychiatrie; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore the educational potential for a collaboration between palliative medicine and psychiatry designed to improve first-year medical students' knowledge and comfort with end-of-life issues through a facilitated small-group discussion with family members of recently-deceased loved ones. Methods: A group of 222 first-year medical students were divided into 14 small groups. Each group also consisted of two mental-health providers, one palliative-medicine interdisciplinary team member, and one family member of a recently-deceased hospice patient. A death-and-dying discussion between students and family members was facilitated by the mental-health and palliative-medicine faculty and was followed by post-activity evaluations. Results: As a result of the facilitated activity, 77% of participants reported increased comfort levels and 85% reported improved knowledge of end-of-life issues. Students reporting benefit were more likely to perceive higher facilitator and family comfort levels with end-of-life discussions, better activity organization, and utility of post-encounter group discussion. Conclusions: Facilitated conversations between students and family members of recently-deceased loved ones may improve comfort and knowledge with end-of-life conversations. Future studies should explore the longer-range impact of this educational activity. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10