A novel advance directives course provides a transformative learning experience for medical students

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 137-141

  Mueller, Paul S ^a   Litin, Scott C ^a   Hook, C Christopher ^a   Creagan, Edward T ^a   Cha, Stephen S ^a   Beckman, Thomas J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIVING WILL; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954305246     PISSN: 10401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10401331003656678     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Nishimura A, Mueller PS, Evenson LK, et al. Patients who complete advance directives and what they prefer. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2007;82:1480-1486.
2. Minnesota State Legislature [Internet]. St. Paul (MN): Office of Re-visor of Statutes, State of Minnesota; c2006. Minnesota statutes 2006 Chapter 145C. Health care directives [updated 2008 Jan 4; cited 2008 May 20]. Avaliable from: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/revisor/pages/statute/statute_chapter_toc.php?year=2006&chapter=145C
3. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990). Pub. L. 101-508, 4206 and 4751 (Medicare and Medicaid, respectively), 42 U.S.C. 1395cc(a) (I)(Q), 1395 mm (c)(8), 1395cc(f), 1396a(a)(57), 1396a(a)(58), and 1396a(w) (Suppl. 1991).
4. Buss MK, Marx ES, Sulmasy DP. The preparedness of students to discuss end-of-life issues with patients. Academic Medicine 1998;73:418-422.
5. Ditto PH, Danks JH, Smucker WD, et al. Advance directives as acts of communication: A randomized controlled trial. Archives of Internal Medicine 2001;161:421-430.
6. Fagerlin A, Schneider CE. Enough: The failure of the living will. The Hastings Center Report 2004 Mar-Apr;34(2):30-42.
7. Kemp KR, Emmons E, Hayes J. Advance directives and do-not-resuscitate orders on general medical wards versus the intensive care unit. Military Medicine 2004;169:433-436.
8. Johnston SC, Pfeifer MP, McNutt R; End of Life Study Group. The discussion about advance directives: Patient and physician opinions regarding when and how it should be conducted. Archives of Internal Medicine 1995;155:1025-1030.
9. Reilly BM, Magnussen CR, Ross J, Ash J, Papa L, Wagner M. Can we talk? Inpatient discussions about advance directives in a community hospital: Attending physicians' attitudes, their inpatients' wishes, and re-ported experience. Archives of Internal Medicine 1994;154:2299-2308.
10. Brunetti LL, Carperos SD, Westlund RE. Physicians' attitudes towards living wills and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Journal of General Internal Medicine 1991;6:323-329.
11. Ury WA, Berkman CS, Weber CM, Pignotti MG, Leipzig RM. Assessing medicalstudents'traininginend-of-lifecommunication:Asurveyofinterns at one urban teaching hospital. Academic Medicine 2003;78:530-537.
12. Go RS, Hammes BA, Lee JA, Mathiason MA. Advance directives among health care professionals at a community-based cancer center. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2007;82:1487-1490.
13. Greenberg JM, Doblin BH, Shapiro DW, Linn LS, Wenger NS. Effect of an educational program on medical students' conversations with patients about advance directives: A randomized trial. Journal of General Internal Medicine 1993;8:683-685.
14. Ross DD, Fraser HC, Kutner JS. Institutionalization of a palliative and end-of-life care educational program in a medical school curriculum. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2001;4:512-8.
15. Torke AM, Quest TE, Kinlaw K, Eley JW, Branch WT Jr. A workshop to teach medical students communication skills and clinical knowledge about end-of-life care. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2004;19(5 Pt 2): 540-544.
16. DasGupta S, Charon R. Personal illness narratives: Using reflective writing to teach empathy. Academic Medicine 2004;79:351-356.
17. Marchand L, Kushner K. Death pronouncements: Using the teachable moment in end-of-life care residency training. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2004;7:80-84.
18. Rosenbaum ME, Lobas J, Ferguson K. Using reflection activities to enhance teaching about end-of-life care. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2005;8:1186-1195.
19. McFarland KF, Rollins EC, Gonzalez MF, Rhoades DR. Dealing with death and dying. Medical Education 1994;28:136-138.
20. Miles MB, Huberman AM. Qualitative data analysis: An expanded source-book (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994.
21. Corbin J, Strauss A. Basics of qualitative research: Techniques and proce-dures for developing grounded theory (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007.
22. DeVillis RF. Scale development: Theory and applications. Newbury Park,CA: Sage, 1991.
23. Dresser R. Advance directives: Implications forpolicy.The Hastings CenterReport 1994 Nov-Dec;24(6):S2-S5.
24. Beckman TJ, Cook DA. Developing scholarly projects in education: A primer for medical teachers. Medical Teacher 2007;29:210-218.
25. Kirkpatrick D. Great ideas revisited: Revisiting Kirkpatrick's four-level model. Training and Development 1996;50:54-59.
26. MacLeod RD, Parkin C, Pullon S, Robertson G. Early clinical exposure to people who are dying: Learning to care at the end of life. Medical Education 2003;37:51-58.
27. Maxwell TL, Passow ES, Plumb J, Sifri RD. Experience with hospice: Reflectionsfromthird-yearmedicalstudents.JournalofPalliativeMedicine 2002;5:721-727.
28. Cook DA, Beckman TJ, Bordage G. Quality of reporting of experimental studies in medical education: A systematic review. Medical Education 2007;41:737-745.
29. Reed DA, Cook DA, Beckman TJ, Levine RB, Kern DE, Wright SM. Association between funding and quality of published medical education research. Journal of the American Medical Association 2007;298:1002-1009.