End-of-Life Care Curriculum in Medical Education

描述（由申请人提供）：在美国，临终关怀教育在医学院课程开发中受到的关注很少。由于美国正在成为一个人口老龄化的国家，这一赤字尤为显著。癌症是第二大死亡原因，发病率随着年龄的增长而增加。为了更好地满足病人的需要，我们建议制定、实施和评估一个临终关怀课程，该课程将被纳入我们机构现有的综合医学课程。我们的目标是培养具备有效评估癌症患者及其家属的临终关怀需求所需的知识、态度和技能的医学专业人员，并使他们能够提供全面、个性化和可衡量的临终关怀处方，以提高生活质量。这项补助金的具体目的是：

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): End-of-life care education in the United States has received minimal attention in medical school curriculum development. This deficit is particularly significant as the United States is becoming a country with an aging population. Cancer is the second leading cause of death and the incidence increases with age. To better meet the needs of our patients, we propose to develop, implement and evaluate an end-of-life care curriculum which will be integrated into the existing comprehensive medical curriculum at our institution. Our goal is to graduate medical professionals who possess the knowledge, attitudes, and skills required to effectively assess the end-of-life care needs of individuals with cancer and their families and to enable them to provide comprehensive, individualized and measurable end-of-life care prescriptions that foster quality of life. The specific aims of this grant are: 1. Review the existing University of Arizona College of Medicine curriculum and published curricula for cancer-related end-of-life care content. 2. Identify the core competencies of a cancer-related end-of-life care curriculum appropriate for our community and culture. 3. Review the University of Arizona College of Medicine curriculum for the identified core competencies of a cancer-related end-of-life care curriculum. 4. Develop learning objectives and teaching methodologies for the integrated cancer-related end-of-life care curriculum. 5. Design and implement evaluation studies to assess the quality of the core competencies and teaching methodologies and their impact on student learning. 6. Establish strategies to assure continuation of the cancer-related end-of-life care curriculum as a required component of future medical education. By careful evaluation of this curriculum, we hope to build upon current models of medical education by emonstrating its efficacy and transferability.