Death is not always a failure: outcomes from implementing an online virtual patient clinical case in palliative care for family medicine clerkship

Background: The dying patient is a reality of medicine. Medical students, however, feel unprepared to effectively manage the complex end-of-life (EOL) management issues of the dying patient and want increased experiential learning in Palliative Care. Aims: To address the need for more formal curricu...

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Main Authors: Amy Tan, Shelley Paige Ross, Kimberley Duerksen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2013-11-01
Series:Medical Education Online
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Online Access:http://med-ed-online.net/index.php/meo/article/download/22711/pdf_1