Connecticut medicine
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Connecticut medicine · Mar 1998
Teaching care of terminally ill patients: a primary care perspective.
Currently there is a great interest in educating medical students in the care of patients with terminal illness. When medical students do encounter patients with terminal illness, it is often in the acute care setting. ⋯ The workshop involves an interactive interview of a patient with a terminal illness by a group of four to eight students and the guidance of an experienced physician facilitator. Four themes are identified as central to the primary care of patients with terminal illness, and emphasis is placed on communication skills and the meaning of language to the dying patient.