Teaching in Palliative Medicine

Table of Contents

1. Teaching and experience of an imminently dying patient
   1. Learning outcomes
   2. Case based discussion
2. Tips on Teaching End of Life Prescribing to Medical Students
   1. Scenario
   2. Discussion
   3. Summary

Learning outcomes

• Signs of dying
• Symptom assessment and mx. e.g. non-verbal signs of distress, breathing pattern e.g. apnoea, rattle,
• Holistic care of dying, e.g. what's important to family or to them e.g. clean sheets, bed clothes, pictures, music.
• Observation of empathy if family present in clinically futile
• Personal acceptance of clinically futile

University of Leeds, School of Medicine

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