This comprehensive syllabus and teacher's guide is for a 7-part curriculum on end of life care and was designed for medicine residents and hospitalist trainees. The syllabus includes handouts, cases, and reprints. In addition, the teacher's guide contains suggestions for how to teach the material for each section, additional handouts and readings, pretest, posttest, retrospective posttest and evaluation forms for each session.

One reviewer wrote, "The strength of this curriculum is its objectives and references" and cautions that there is a large amount of material to cover and that others may wish to make some adaptations to the materials. However, the materials are thorough and well designed. (Note: Users may need to seek copyright approval for reprints used in these materials.)

COURSE OBJECTIVES
The learner will:
1. Understand approaches to pain and symptom management in end of life care
2. Develop strategies and phrases for discussing end of life care with patients
3. Conduct effective family meetings
4. Appreciate ethical issues that arise in end of life care
5. Understand hospice and how to make referrals
6. Describe how to estimate prognosis and why it is important to do so
7. Appreciate the emotional, spiritual and cross-cultural issues in end of life care
8. Describe how to discuss spiritual issues in end of life care
9. Describe the responsibilities of the physician after a patient dies

This syllabus is available from author, Steven Z. Pantilat, M.D.
stevep@medicine.ucsf.edu
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
521 Parnassus Ave., Suite C-126
UCSF, Box 0903
San Francisco, CA 94143-0903
Phone: 415-476-9019
Fax: 415-476-5020

Creation Date: 9/2000

Format: Cases, Evaluation Forms, Handouts, Lecture Notes, Standardized Patient Case, Self-Study Guide Book

Purpose: Instructional Aid, Self-Study Guide, Teaching

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