Learning to Care for the Dying: A Survey of Medical Schools and a Model Course.

Mermann, Alan C.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ421601

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Publication Date: 1991

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Learning to Care for the Dying: A Survey of Medical Schools and a Model Course.

Mermann, Alan C.; And Others

Academic Medicine, v66 n1 p35-38 Jan 1991

A survey of 111 medical schools found 12 provided no formal teaching in death and dying, 30 provided 1 or 2 lectures in the first 2 years, 51 taught it as a module of a larger course, and 18 offered it as an elective. A Yale School of Medicine seminar uses patients as teachers. (Author/MSE)

Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design, Death, Higher Education, Medical Education, Medical Schools, National Surveys, Physician Patient Relationship, Professional Education, Seminars

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Language: English

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