Death education in selected medical schools as related to physicians' attitudes and reactions toward dying patients.
These data obtained from 1093 recent graduates of five selected medical schools suggest that the physician who chose to take a medical school course on relating to dying patients tends to actually relate better to the dying patient than does the physician who did not take such a course.
D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001293:Attitude to Death; D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States