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Palliative and End-of-Life Care Education
Edward S. Harkness Memorial Hall
367 Cedar Street
ESH 304, Bldg. D
New Haven, CT 06510
Tel: 203.737.2796
Fax: 203.737.4875
tracy.yale@yale.edu

Student Resources

First Year

Student Assignments and Workshops:

  • Introduction to end-of-life care workshop

Recommended Reading:

  • Lo B, Quill T, Tulsky. Discussing Palliative Care with Patients. Ann Intern Med 1999
  • Parker PA. Caring for Patients at the End-of-Life: Reflections after 12 years of Practice. Ann Intern Med 2002

Second Year

Student Assignments and Workshops:

  • Pre-Clinical Clerkship: hospice/palliative care experience

Recommended Reading:

  • Lo B, Quill T, Tulsky. Discussing Palliative Care with Patients. Ann Intern Med 1999
  • Lynn J. Serving Patients Who May Die Soon and Their Families.JAMA 2001

Third Year

Student Assignments and Workshops:

  • End-of-Life Care on the Wards-transition week
  • Ward-based End-of-Life Care Exercise
    (Psychiatry Clerkship)
  • Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Online Cases & Workshops (Med 1, II, ED)

  • Pain Management Drug Therapy Workshop PowerPoint (Med I)

Recommended Reading:

  • Balaban. A Physicians Guide to Talking About End-of-Life Care. JGIM 2000
  • Morrison, Meier. Palliative Care. NEJM 2004
  • Communication Phrases Near End-of-Life
  • McCrawley, et al. Strategies for Culturally Effective End-of-Life Care. Ann. IM 2002
  • Siegel, M. End-of-Life Decision Making. Clin. Chest 2009

Fourth Year

Student Assignments and Workshops:

  • Connecticut Hospice: Elective in Advanced Symptom Management
  • ICM Session: DNR orders, death pronouncement and notification

Recommended Reading:

  • EPERC- Fast Facts #8,9,18,19(website)
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Links

The Connecticut Hospice

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EPERC: End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center


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