title: Nurse practitioner-led home care curriculum for third-year medical students.
abstract: Recent data have shown that medical students do not receive adequate exposure to the practice of home care. The number of homebound people is expected to increase, and health care services for these patients will need to expand. A one-week didactic and clinical curriculum was designed and implemented by four nurse practitioners in the Visiting Doctors Program, to provide home care exposure to medical students. The program stresses the medical, psychosocial and palliative aspects of patient care. The students evaluated both the nurse practitioners and the program favorably, using a five-point Likert scale. Role modeling and professionalism were noted to be of value to the students, and bear further study in the context of medical school curricula for home care.
authors.affiliation: Visiting Doctors Program, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10029, USA. marina.burke@msnyuhealth.org
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Burke
authors.forename: Lawrence G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education*; D009732:Nursing Care; D013337:Students, Medical