Student Resources

First Year

  Student Assignments and Workshops:

• Introduction to end-of-life care workshop

  Recmmended Reading:

• Lo B, Quill T, Tulsky. Discussing Palliative Care with Patients. Ann Intern Med 1999
• Parker PA. Caring for Patients at the End-of-Life: Reflections after 12 years of Practice. Ann Intern Med 2002 

Second Year

  Student Assignments and Workshops:

• Pre-Clinical Clerkship: hospice/palliative care experience

  Recommended Reading:

• Lo B, Quill T, Tulsky. Discussing Palliative Care with Patients. Ann Intern Med 1999

• Lynn J. Serving Patients Who May Die Soon and Their Families. JAMA 2001

Third Year

  Student Assignments and Workshops:

• End-of-Life Care on the Wards-survival week
• Ward-based End-of-Life Care Exercise
  (Psychiatry Clerkship)
• Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Online Cases & Workshops, (Med I, Med II, Emergency Clerkship)
• Pain Management Drug Therapy Workshop (Med I)

  Recommended Reading:

• Balaban. A Physicians Guide to Talking About End-of-Life Care. JGIM 2000
• Morrison, Meier. Palliative Care. NEJM 2004
• Communication Phrases Near End-of-Life
• McCrawley, et al. Strategies for Culturally Effective End-of-Life Care. Ann. IM 2002
• Siegel, M. End-of-Life Decision Making. Clin. Chest 2009

Fourth Year

  Student Assignments and Workshops:

• Connecticut Hospice: Elective in Advanced Symptom Management
• ICM Session: DNR orders, death pronouncement and notification

  Recommended Reading:

• EPERC- Fast Facts #8,9,18,19 (website)

Links