title: [Helping medical students to approach death].
abstract: A project recently launched by the Faculty of biology and medicine of Lausanne introduces the approach of facing death during both the dissection and the course of clinical activities. Existential questions relating to mortality are bound to arise sooner or later during the course of the study. For the sake of humanized clinical practice, these questions must be confronted. In response to a request by a student association, an accompanying curriculum with active student's contribution through encounters with death in anatomy and clinical situations was created in Lausanne. Students will benefit from this new program throughout their curriculum. This program is the first of its kind in Switzerland.
authors.affiliation: Doctors and Death Lausanne, CHUV, Lausanne. marc-antoine.bornet@unil.ch
authors.forename: M-A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bornet
authors.affiliation: Doctors and Death Lausanne, CHUV, Lausanne.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kasser
authors.affiliation: Faculté de biologie et de médecine de Lausanne, Lausanne.
authors.forename: J-P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Hornung
authors.affiliation: Faculté de biologie et de médecine de Lausanne, Lausanne.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Martinez
authors.affiliation: Faculté de biologie et de médecine de Lausanne, Lausanne.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cadas
authors.affiliation: Unité d'éthique, CHUV et Plateforme interdisciplinaire d'éthique, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Benaroyo
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D005086:Existentialism; D006801:Humans; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D013557:Switzerland