The state of undergraduate palliative care education at Austrian medical schools - a mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is an increasing demand for universal, high-quality access to palliative care in Austria. To ensure this, the implementation of palliative care in the medical studies curriculum is essential. This is the first study to investigate the state of undergraduate palliative care education at Austrian medical schools.

Methods

For this mixed-methods study with concurrent embedded design, expert interviews and online surveys were conducted between March and August 2022. The interviews were subjected to a thematic analysis according to Braun and Clarke, while the questionnaires were analysed descriptively-statistically. For the final integration, the results of both methods for each topic are presented and discussed complementarily. Both the primary qualitative and su

SUBMITTER: Toussaint V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10563205 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature