Evaluating an Advance Care Planning Curriculum: a Lecture, a Game, a Patient, and an Essay.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Curricula on advance care planning are commonly absent or inadequate in the majority of medical schools. This study assessed an advance care planning mini-curriculum involving a lecture, an end-of-life conversation game, a patient encounter during which students facilitated completion of an advance directive, and a subsequent reflective essay.

Methods

This convergent, mixed methods study used a pre-post, longitudinal design. Confidence having end-of-life conversations was assessed at three timepoints. A linear mixed effects model compared mean confidence at the three timepoints. Focus groups and open-ended questionnaires (analyzed using content analysis) explored student perceptions of the curricula.

Results

Sixty-nine of 149 students completed the questionnai

SUBMITTER: Van Scoy LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8368620 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature