Death education: a survey of U.S. colleges and schools of pharmacy.
This survey was conducted to assess the present state of death education available to pharmacy students at both the BS and PharmD degree levels. Eighty-five percent of the colleges and schools of pharmacy located in the United States provided information concerning: (i) attitudes toward teaching death education; (ii) present offerings; (iii) academic background of instructors and departments responsible for death education programs; and (iv) course information. It was determined that 38 colleges of pharmacy offered some form of death education in their curricula during 1985. However, only 12 schools offered a full semester course, and many schools offered death education as an elective through a discipline other than pharmacy. As a result, a majority of graduates are still leaving pharmacy schools without any instruction in death education. The implications of these and other findings are discussed.
D001293:Attitude to Death; D003479:Curriculum; D003625:Data Collection; D003643:Death; D004512:Education, Pharmacy / Q000639:trends*; D012580:Schools, Pharmacy; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D013795:Thanatology; D014481:United States