Palliative care education and knowledge transfer into practice - a multicenter survey among medical students and resident physicians in Germany using a mixed-methods design.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In 2009, Palliative care was incorporated into the medical curriculum as Cross-Sectional Subject 13 (QB13) by means of the revision of the Medical Licensing Regulations for Physicians. The aim of this study was to determine the strengths and deficits of QB13 student education for palliative care in clinical practice in a multi-centre setting and to identify potential for improvement.

Methods

Online questionnaires filled out by medical students during their Practical Year (PY) and resident physicians from the university hospitals in Aachen, Düsseldorf, and Cologne were descriptively analyzed using SPSS; free-text responses were categorized and quantified. Semi-structured interviews with the resident physicians (using a mixed-methods design) were analyzed through con

SUBMITTER: Dronia MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11310786 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature