Palliative care in undergraduate medical education - consolidation of the learning contents of palliative care in the final academic year.

ABSTRACT: Background: Demographic change and the medical imperative to accompany patients at all times and also in the case of illness leading to death require good basic knowledge of palliative care in large parts of the medical profession. Palliative care has been introduced into undergraduate medical education as a compulsory subject: "interdisciplinary subject 13 palliative care" (Q13). While course concepts for Q13 have already been positively evaluated, assessment of the consolidation and practical relevance of the knowledge taught is lacking. Methods: Assessment of the consolidation of the learning content from Q13 after the practical year (the "practical year" is the sixth and final year of undergraduate medical education in Germany) by means of a survey with a proven questionn

SUBMITTER: Gerlach C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8493850 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature