Breaking bad news: Use of cancer survivors in role-playing exercises

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 885-892

  Baer, Alan N ^a   Freer, Jack P ^b   Milling, David A ^b   Potter, William R ^c   Ruchlin, Hillary ^d   Zinnerstrom, Karen H ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Diabetes Endocrinology Center of Western New York   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; CURRICULUM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXERCISE; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ROLE PLAYING; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SIMULATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; ROLE PLAYING; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SURVIVORS; TERMINALLY ILL; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 50049132998     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2007.0253     Document Type: Article

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