title: Volunteer patient advocacy: an interdisciplinary course on attending to patients at the end of life.
abstract: Little is known about the impact on health care students of early end-of-life care (EOLC) education and patient contact. We developed an EOLC course that allowed students to serve as volunteer advocates for patients at the end of life (EOL). We evaluated the course's acceptability to students and its effect on students' attitudes and beliefs.
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco/Mount Zion, San Francisco, California, 94115, USA. mrabow@medicine.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Michael W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Rabow
authors.forename: Jane J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Petersen
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schanche
mesh_terms: D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D004512:Education, Pharmacy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010166:Palliative Care; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D014838:Volunteers / Q000523:psychology