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This portion of the Integrated Clinician’s Course has a theme of “Difficult Discussions, Symptom Management and Palliative Care”. Our goal is to provide you with skills necessary for caring for patients at the end of life, as well as provide career counseling aimed at planning for your fourth year and residency applications. We hope to make this a relaxing, informative, and interactive week!
The General Objectives of IDPT 7003 are:
To provide students:
- With the clinical skills required to break bad news, to be receptive to issues of spirituality in clinical practice, and to manage symptoms in advanced illness.
- With practice breaking bad news to patients/families and practice discussing end of life planning with patients/families.
- With an understanding of the cost of caring for patients at the end of life.
- With the opportunity to discuss many of the ethical dilemmas faced in end of life care including futility, physician-assisted suicide, and withdrawal of care.
- With the information necessary to plan their fourth year schedules and begin thinking about the residency application process.
- With the time and opportunity for reflection on the events and personal/professional growth that has transpired during the third year.
Attendance and Remediation:
Students who register for the course but plan to miss one or more sessions must contact the course director at least one month prior to the start of the course. Students must review the Absence Request Policy and complete an Absence Request Form (http://www.uchsc.edu/som/curriculum/icc/policy.html). This form must be emailed to both course directors and the course administrator. Remediation of missed content is required for all absences, voluntary and involuntary. Students who unexpectedly have to miss sessions should contact the course director as soon as possible to discuss the situation. Students will receive an IP until the remediation is satisfactorily completed. Remediation will be due two weeks after the completion of the course.
***** As this is a required course, random attendance will be taken during this course; anyone not present may be checked for attendance on subsequent days. All absences must be remediated.
Block Directors
Lisa Schilling, MD, MSPH
Jennifer Adams, MD
Program Assistant
Christy Angerhofer
Draft Syllabus
word doc 20 July 2009 version
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Draft Schedule
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