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AMSA's Death and
Dying Interest Group
This Interest Group arose in response to medical students' concern that medical school leaves us inadequately prepared to communicate with terminally ill patients, as well as being poorly equipped emotionally to deal with matters of death and dying. This is important to us on a personal level as we face dying patients almost daily on the wards. On a professional level, we address important issues such as aid in
dying and palliative care. In response to these needs, we as an interest group provide guidance, support and resources for students who wish to supplement their medical education in the area of death and dying. As co-coordinators, we act as facilitators for this learning, but the Interest Group needs your active participation to be successful!
GET INVOLVED
- Death and Dying Listserve
- We hope to make this listserve a forum for active discussion of issues and a way for students at different medical schools to work together on projects. We will jump-start the discussions by posting a question each month to generate conversations around issues of interest. We hope that you guys will not only participate in the discussions, but will also post questions or topics for your colleagues from around the country. Listserve Guidelines
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Again, we encourage you to join our list and e-mail us if you have suggestions!
RESOURCES
END-OF-LIFE EDUCATION
AMSA Foundation EOL Fellowship
Introduces students to end-of-life care issues and develop curricula for their medical schools. With program sites in Ft. Lauderdale, the program combines an orientation to end of life care with weekly seminars and field placements at local hospices, nursing homes and inpatient hospice units.
End-of-Life Projects in a Box, PowerPoint Lunch Lectures & Presentations
Developed by EOL Fellows
Death & Dying Reading List
Physician-Assisted Suicide: For and Against
End-of-Life Care Curriculum Guide
Addresses many important issues in dealing with terminally ill patients, with topics ranging from delivering a terminal diagnosis to addressing spiritual perspectives on end-of-life.
PROJECT GUIDES
A 7 Step Plan for Starting a Death and Dying Interest Group at Your School
Playing God: The Dilemma of
the Dying Patient (PDF 17KB)
This project takes a controversial case, selected from a local
health care facility and utilizes members of the health care
team involved in the case as presenters. Suggests methods for
audience examination of the issues involved.
A Program to Honor the Cadavers used During Anatomy
A planning guide for students and the cadaver's families as a way to honor the tremendous gift bestowed upon medical students yearly through local donation programs.
Cancer Outreach Relief Effort (CORE)
Matching pediatric patients with medical students
A Dinner Sponsored by Hospice and AMSA
Forming Partnerships with your Local Hospice
Forming a Journal Club at your School
ARTICLES BY DR. IRA BYOCK:
Author and president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Note, AMSA has been permitted to offer these articles but Dr. Byock retains all copyrights of his material. Please cite these references if you use this material.
Consciously Walking the Fine Line: Thoughts on a Hospice Response to Assisted
Suicide and Euthanasia
Journal of Palliative Care 9:3 pp 25-28 Autumn 1993
A Letter to The National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine
Committee on Care at the End of Life
May 20, 1996, Academy of Hospice Physicians
Notes of a Hospice Physician
The Western Journal of Medicine, Vol 164, No. 4, pp 367-8, April 1996
Patient Refusal of Nutrition and Hydration: Walking the Ever-Finer Line
The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care, March/April 1995 pp 8-13
The Nature of Suffering and the Nature of Opportunity at the End
of Life
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, Vol. 12: 2, pp 237-251 May 1996
When suffering persists....
Journal of Palliative Care Vol.10, No.2, pp 8-13, 1994
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