Integrating an end-of-life curriculum into the internal medicine clerkship.
OBJECTIVE
To integrate an end-of-life curriculum into the third-year internal medicine clerkship via communication skills training with standardized patients and a community hospice experience.


METHODS
Clerkship directors identified a lack of exposure to end-of-life issues and hospice care as gaps in our third-year medical student curriculum. This curriculum was implemented to address these deficiencies.
Leslie
Bennett
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Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Adams
Lorraine
L
Kutner
Jean S
JS
D002982:Clinical Clerkship / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education*; D010166:Palliative Care