title: Impact of a Home Hospice Visit Program on Third-Year Medical Students: A qualitative analysis of student reflections.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study evaluates the impact of an interprofessional home hospice visit (HHV) on third-year medical students' attitudes toward, and understanding of, end-of-life care and the visit's effect on students' views of their emerging professional roles and identities.
  
  
  METHODS
  All third-year medical students at Stony Brook School of Medicine in Stony Brook, New York, USA, participated in an HHV. A didactic session preceded the HHV. Subsequently, students were required to submit a piece of reflective writing detailing the impact of the visit. We conducted a qualitative analysis of a random sample drawn from the 467 submitted reflections.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Six themes emerged from the student reflections: three were related to the students' direct observations during the HHV, and three were related to the reflective learning of the students based on their HHV experience.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The qualitative analysis of the reflective writings showed that the students gained a deep appreciation of the human identity of hospice patients and a humanistic understanding of their own role as future physicians.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Strano-Paul
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lane
authors.forename: Wei-Hsin
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Latha
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chandran
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services; D017051:Hospice Care / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D065126:Palliative Medicine / Q000193:education*; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology*; D014956:Writing