How Physicians are Trained to Interact With the Dying
A Thematic Analysis of Medical Student Exposures to End-Of-Life Cases
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13628725 |
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| Authors | Erin Currey (0000-0002-1700-0619, Internal Medicine, Wright-Patterson Medical Center, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, OH, USA, corresponding author), Mary Margaret Fessler (0000-0002-3654-1322, Duke University), Caroline Wong (0000-0002-0860-0540, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, OH, USA), Dasha Giger (Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, OH, USA), Kristin M Collier (University of Michigan), Kristin Collier (Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 302228241265526-302228241265526 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00302228241265526 |
| PMID | 39041669 |
| OpenAlex | W4400919594 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Physicians-in-training feel uncomfortable coping with the grief they experience while delivering end-of-life care, and medical schools offer minimal formal curricular offerings on end of life care. Few studies have identified what experiences medical students have with death while training or what lessons they are being taught by more senior physicians at bedside. This qualitative study conducted semi-structured interviews prior to and six months into the medical school clinical year. Our goal was to identify when students were encountering seriously ill/dying patients and what informal education students received about caring for dying patients. Descriptive statistics showed the majority of the encounters the students had with seriously ill or dying patients were in the hospital-based medicine setting. A minority of students participated in debriefs about end-of-life care with their care teams after the events. Thematic analysis showed significant heterogeneity in students' exposure and responses to patient deaths
Coping (psychology · Descriptive statistics · End-of-life care · Family medicine · Grief · Medical education · Palliative care · Psychiatry · Qualitative research · Thematic analysis · Clinical Psychology · Ethics in medical practice · Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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