Two-Week Electives for the Clinical Continuum - Family & Community Medicine

Course objectives:

To obtain first hand by working directly with the hospice team and hospice patients and families the following experiences in/knowledge of:

1. The goals and methods of hospice care and palliative medicine.
2. The provisions of the Medicare hospice benefit.
3. What constitutes an appropriate referral to hospice care.
4. The interdisciplinary team method
5. A rudimentary understanding of pain and symptom pharmacology
6. A small bibliography of references in the care of terminally ill persons and their loved ones/family.

1. Selected, directed readings/articles on bereavement and lss issues, pain/symptom control, EOL ethics, spirituality, and related topics.
2. Attendance at and participation in team meetings/conferences/presentations
3. Visits to patients (in-home and in-patient) with interdisciplinary team members.
4. Small group or one-on-one "didactic" sessions with team members

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