Teaching about Dying and Death in a Multidisciplinary Student Group

Bibliographic Data

ID13629366
AuthorsDavid Barton (0000-0002-7074-3825, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, corresponding author), Miles K Crowder (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine), John M Flexner (Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine)
Year1980
Volume10
Issue3
Pages265-270
Publication date1980-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/lxvk-pcrq-jwqj-8nfd
OpenAlexW2039505891
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited2

A number of dimensions which emerged in instructing a multidisciplinary class of medical students, nursing students, social work students and theology students about dying and death are discussed in this paper. As the group process proved to be the single most important aspect of the multidisciplinary course, primary attention is devoted to this phenomenon as it evolved in the class. The course provided a laboratory in which students from varying disciplines could evaluate their roles and transactions and begin to work together to focus on important matters involved in caring for the dying. In so doing the recognition of a solidarity of purpose, shared feeling, and mutual support emerged. Care for the dying person is often provided by physicians, nurses, hospital chaplains, psychologists, community clergymen, social workers and other personnel

Class (philosophy · Epistemology · Feeling · Focus group · Group work · Medical education · Multidisciplinary approach · Pedagogy · Phenomenon · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work

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