Preclinical Medical Students’ Diverse Educational and Emotional Responses to a Required Hospice Experience:

摘要: Background:Physicians’ lack of comfort and skill in communicating about hospice care results deficits delays referrals. Preclinical exposure to may lay a foundation improve medical students’ knowledge with care.Objective:To understand how preclinical student (MS)-2s respond both educationally emotionally required experience (HCE).Design:Accompanied by clinicians, MS-2s spent 3 hours seeing inpatient or home patients followed 1-hour debriefing. Students submitted written reflections e-mailed educational emotional prompts.Setting/patients:Two hundred two from 2 academic cohorts completed the HCE at 1 sites.Measurements:Written reflective responses were analyzed qualitatively, where salient themes extracted coded.Results:Ninety-two students 175 Prompt #1 (educational impact) 85 entered prompt #2 (emotional impa...