PHYSICIAN HOSPICE/PALLIATIVE CARE TRAINING--UNIPACS

描述：(申请者描述)这个项目的总体目标是 为提高临终关怀医生的能力，开发实用、 可在培训时使用的面向临床的教材 医科学生、住院医生和执业医生护理临终 病人。教育材料的设计将使他们能够被 在个人学习情况下执业医生，由教师在 作为医学生教育补充的医学学术中心 讲课，住院医师培训计划中的讲师和教育 提供临床轮换的临终关怀计划的协调员。这个 该项目的具体目标如下：(1)开发两个额外的 解决控制疼痛和其他有效技术的UNIPAC 令人痛苦的症状和提供全面的临终关怀 两个特定的人群；儿科患者和艾滋病患者-- Unipac 7：艾滋病患者的临终关怀/姑息治疗 八：为儿科患者提供临终关怀/姑息治疗(2)开发口袋 临终关怀/姑息医学指南；(3)开发全文可搜索 光盘，其中包括两个拟议的UNIPAC和袖珍指南， 六个以前的UNIPAC和其他教育材料；(4)评估每一个 使用投入、过程和结果测量的教育材料；(5) 在全国范围内分发印刷版和电子版的教育 由于这笔赠款而开发的材料。

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Description) The overall goal of this project is to promote physician competency in end-of-life care by developing practical, clinically oriented educational materials that can be used when training medical students, residents, and practicing physicians to care for dying patients. The educational materials will be designed so they can be used by practicing physicians in individual learning situations, by teachers in academic centers of medicine as educational supplements to medical student lectures, by instructors in residency training programs, and by education coordinators in hospice programs that offer clinical rotations. The specific aims for this project are as follows: (1) Develop two additional UNIPACs that address effective techniques for controlling pain and other distressing symptoms and the provision of comprehensive end-of-life care for two specific populations; pediatric patients and patients with AIDS -- UNIPAC Seven: Hospice/Palliative Care for Patients with AIDS - UNIPAC Eight: Hospice/Palliative Care for Pediatric Patients (2) Develop a Pocket Guide to Hospice/Palliative Medicine; (3) Develop a full-text searchable CD-ROM disc that includes the two proposed UNIPACs and the Pocket Guide, the six previous UNIPACs, and other educational materials; (4) Evaluate each of the education materials using input, process, and outcome measures; (5) Nationally distribute both print and electronic versions of the educational materials developed as a result of this grant.