Teaching Medical Students About "The Conversation": An Interactive Value-Based Advance Care Planning Session.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Advance care planning (ACP) promotes care consistent with patient wishes. Medical education should teach how to initiate value-based ACP conversations.

Objective

To develop and evaluate an ACP educational session to teach medical students a value-based ACP process and to encourage students to take personal ACP action steps.

Design

Groups of third-year medical students participated in a 75-minute session using personal reflection and discussion framed by The Conversation Starter Kit. The Conversation Project is a free resource designed to help individuals and families express their wishes for end-of-life care.

Setting and participants

One hundred twenty-seven US third-year medical students participated in the session.

Measurements

Student evalu

SUBMITTER: Lum HD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5730505 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature