Goals and Objectives End of Life Curriculum
Goal #4 Patient Care
Students must use their knowledge, skills, and attitudes to provide patient care at the end of life that is appropriate, effective and sensitive to the psychological, sociologic, cultural and spiritual aspects of death and dying. Students will be able to:
1. identify the multiple determinants of suffering: physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual |
Behavioral Development |
| IPM-I |
| IPM-II |
| Medicine |
| Mechanisms of Human Disease |
| IPM-III |
| Neurology |
2. identify the psychological, sociologic, cultural, and spiritual aspects of loss and bereavement |
Behavioral Development |
| Medicine |
3. develop and implement a care plan for patients when cure is no longer a rational goal and health services are most appropriately directed at comfort |
Family Practice |
| Medicine |
| Neurology |
| Surgery |
| Medicine |
5. develop a care plan responsive to the various environments in which end of life and palliative treatment are provided and recognize the advantages and disadvantages of the environment |
Family Practice |
| Medicine |
6. apply the knowledge of the principle of double effect in providing end of life patient care |
Medicine |
7. apply knowledge to effectively evaluate and manage the most common physical symptoms encountered at the end of life |
Family Practice |
| IPM-III |
| Neurology |
| Surgery |
| Third year competency exam |
8. apply knowledge of the points on consensus and controversy to make reasonable judments regarding the following aspects of end of life care: |
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a) withholding treatment
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Behavioral Development |
| Surgery |
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b) withdrawing treatment
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Behavioral Development |
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Neurology |
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Surgery |
c) euthanasia
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Surgery |
d) pain management
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Surgery |
e) non-abandonment of patients
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Behavioral Development |
| IPM-III |
| Surgery |
f) access of patients to high quality palliative and end of life care
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IPM-III |
| Surgery |
g) conflicts of interest
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Obstetrics/Gynecology |
| Surgery |
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