Breaking bad news education for emergency medicine residents: A novel training module using simulation with the SPIKES protocol

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 385-388

  Park, Inchoel ^a   Gupta, Amit ^a   Mandani, Kaivon ^a   Haubner, Laura ^a   Peckler, Brad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Delivering bad news; education; simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650487971     PISSN: 09742700     EISSN: 0974519X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0974-2700.70760     Document Type: Conference Paper

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