Medical Students' Palliative Care Education in a Latin American University: A Three-Year Experience at Austral University in Buenos Aires, Argentina
| Autor: | Ernesto Vignaroli, Mariela Bertolino, Marcelo J. Villar, Eduardo Mario Mutto, Roberto Wenk, Sofía Bunge |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Palliative care Latin Americans Students Medical CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y DE LA SALUD Attitude of Health Personnel education Argentina Ciencias de la Salud Hospitals University Nursing Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Curriculum General Nursing Salud Ocupacional business.industry Palliative Care General Medicine Death Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Family medicine Clinical Competence business Education Medical Undergraduate |
| DOI: | 10.1089/jpm.2013.0673 |
| Popis: | Background: The School of Medicine of Austral University incorporated palliative care as an elective in undergraduate medicine curriculum during 2010. Objective: We analyzed the experience and results after 3 years of teaching palliative care. We compared students who chose palliative care as an elective subject (PC Group) with students who did not (Non-PC Group). We focused on the experience of contact with palliative care patients and self-perceived attitudes. Additionally, the impact produced by palliative care education in knowledge, self-perceived attitudes, and comfort was evaluated. Methods: All the students tested completed a questionnaire on their attitude when exposed to dying patients. Students in the PC Group completed an additional questionnaire to assess their level of knowledge and their self-perceived comfort when interacting with patients. Results: We tested 146 students. All students in the PC Group and 95.2% in the Non-PC Group considered that specific death issues ought to be part of the curriculum. Some students indicated that they could be present in a mandatory course. Before taking their elective, students in the PC Group confirmed a lack of technical training to understand palliative care patients, as did those students in the Non-PC Group. After taking a palliative care elective students expressed an improvement in self-perceived attitudes toward suffering and there was a significant increase (p |
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