Background: The medical student experience of a clinical elective in palliative care (PC)
remains understudied. Reflective narrative interventions can help students hone narrative …

Background: Medical education leaders have called for a curriculum that proactively teaches
knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for professional practice and have identified …

Purpose: To use reflective writing to evaluate a new required palliative care experience for
third year medical students. Method: The authors used a constant comparison method …

Background: Medical students learn about death, dying, and palliative care (DDPC) through
formal curricular offerings and informal clinical experiences; however, the lessons learned in …

Purpose: More physicians need to acquire the skills of primary palliative care. Medical
students' clerkship experiences with death, dying, and palliative care (DDPC), however, may …

Objectives: Narrative medicine promotes the effective practice of medicine by requiring
clinicians to listen to, reflect on, and manage not only the physiology of disease but also …

Aim This study evaluates the impact of an interprofessional home hospice visit (HHV) on
third-year medical students' attitudes toward, and understanding of, end-of-life care and the …

Medical educators agree that training in end-of-life care (EOLC) must be an integral part of
medical education at all levels. While progress in this area of education has taken place …

The day-to-day rigors of medical education often preclude learners from gaining a
longitudinal perspective on who they are becoming. Furthermore, the current focus on …

METHODS The written reflections of 54 undergraduate medical students in the Faculty of
Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, were reviewed following the …