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Expanding End of Life Care Education at the University of Wisconsin Medical School

Expanding End of Life Care Education at the University of Wisconsin Medical School. By Jackie Redmer 2005 AMSA EOL Fellow. Goals for EOL Project. To identify gaps in EOL training during the clinical and pre-clinical years

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Expanding End of Life Care Education at the University of Wisconsin Medical School

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  1. Expanding End of Life Care Education at the University of Wisconsin Medical School By Jackie Redmer 2005 AMSA EOL Fellow

  2. Goals for EOL Project • To identify gaps in EOL training during the clinical and pre-clinical years • To generate interest, curiosity, and excitement in palliative and end of life care • To enhance EOL education at the University of Wisconsin Medical School through several different learning forums

  3. Current EOL Resources • Healer’s Art Elective • M2 Pharm Lectures on Pain Management • M2 Neoplasia Lecture on Palliative Care • M3 Core Day on Death and Communicating Bad News • M4 Palliative Care Rotation (evolving)

  4. Partnerships for EOL Projects • Motivated fellow 3rd year students • Unsuspecting 2nd year students who can help coordinate logistics • Dr. Carl Weston, Administrative Medical Director Madison Hospice and 2007 Class Mentor • Dr. Jim Cleary, Educational Director Madison Hospice, UW Med School Faculty and UW Hospital Oncologist

  5. Project Overview • Student Survey/Assessment • EOL noon-series overview for 1st and 2nd year students • EOL seminar/intensive for interested 1st and 2nd year students • 3rd and 4th year EOL curriculum planning committee

  6. Student Survey/Assessment Who: 1st and 2nd year medical students What: A 5-10 minute survey to evaluate student’s beliefs on death, the physician’s role on death and dying and EOL ethics When: During Fall Orientation Where: Wherever that takes place Why: To generate interest and thought on EOL education, to assess whether an intensive program or general lecture series might be more effective

  7. EOL Noon-Series • A 2-3 part series which will take place in September -Part 1: “To Live Until I Die Video” -Part 2: Intro to Hospice and EOL Care • Will coordinate with the integrative medicine interest group • Lectures given by hospice physicians

  8. EOL Seminar/Intensive • EOL seminar will involve 15-30 students and 5 sessions. Topics covered will reflect student survey but will most likely include discussions in some of these areas: -Exploring student’s beliefs surrounding death -Ethical issues in EOL care -Advance directives -Nutrition and EOL care -CAM and non-traditional care -Spiritual and mental health care at EOL -Physical symptoms and care for patients actively dying • Concluding this workshop/minicourse students will have an opportunity to tour the residential hospice facility and meet with hospice staff over dinner • Interested students will also have the opportunity to sign-up for volunteer training

  9. Enhancing 3rd and 4th year EOL Education • To help improve EOL education during the 3rd and 4th years I plan to: 1) Serve as the student representative for the M3 Death, Dying, and Communication Core Day planning committee 2) Serve as the student representative for the M4 Palliative Care Rotation planning committee

  10. Thanks Horizon Hospice Heartland Hospice American Medical Student Association My Mentors at the University of Wisconsin Medical School

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