Mapping an undergraduate medical education curriculum against national and international palliative care reference learning objectives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The teaching of palliative care competencies is an essential component of undergraduate medical education. There is significant variance in the palliative care content delivered in undergraduate medical curricula, revealing the utility of reference standards to guide curricular development and assessment. To evaluate our university's undergraduate palliative care teaching, we undertook a curriculum mapping exercise, comparing official learning objectives to the national Educating Future Physicians in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (EFPPEC) and the international Palliative Education Assessment Tool (PEAT) reference objectives.

Methods

Multiple assessors independently compared our university's UGME learning objectives with EFPPEC and PEAT reference objectives to de

SUBMITTER: Murphy R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10836050 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature