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

Background Over recent years there has been an increase in teaching of both palliative care
and reflective practice in UK medical schools. The palliative care teaching at the University …

Background: While reflection on experiences and attitudes related to death can be an
important component of learning to care for the dying, opportunities within the medical …

Background: The fostering of reflective capacity within medical education helps develop
critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills and enhances professionalism. Use of reflective …

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

Context: A mandatory course in palliative care (PC) is organized for all final-year medical
students at the University of Navarre. It consists of 24 lectures, 4 workshops, and 1 …

Purpose To investigate students' experience (over time) with meta-reflection writing
exercises, called Signature Reflections. These exercises were used to strengthen reflective …

Experiences from the clinical setting are ideal for building critical thinking skills if reflection is
used as a teaching tool. Reflective writing is the purposeful and recurring inspection of …