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As Patients Age, Future Physicians Develop End of Life Skills
American Medical Student Association, 08/05/09

The End of Life Education Fellowship Program is a six–week summer experience that combines an orientation to EOL care with weekly seminars and field placements at local hospices, nursing homes and inpatient units. VITAS, the nation’s leading provider of end–of–life care, has partnered with AMSA for the past five years. Students were part of an interdisciplinary hospice team consisting of doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains, bereavement counselors and volunteers. They developed and practiced basic interviewing and communication skills essential to EOL care, while understanding the psychological, sociological, cultural and spiritual aspects of death and dying. While at their program sites, students developed EOL curricula to be implemented at their medical schools and to be shared with medical schools across the nation.