Medical education
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The study's first aim was to assess the emotional impact of cadaver dissection on first year medical students using the newly developed Appraisal of Life Events Scale (ALE). Its secondary aim was to evaluate the validity of the ALE by comparing it with the Impact of Events Scale (IOE). ⋯ The results indicate that medical students do not report their first exposure to cadaver dissection as an aversive experience. Instead, as the ALE results confirm, they found it to be a positive and challenging life event. The ALE appears to be a useful instrument in assessing positive and negative emotional reactions to significant life events.
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To examine changes in formal teaching about death, dying and bereavement in undergraduate medical education in UK medical schools. ⋯ The preparation for palliative care work provided for current undergraduate medical students appears to be of a better quality than that provided in 1983.