GMED 705L Living with a Life-Threatening Illness

Credits: 2
This interdisciplinary and interprofessional course introduces fundamental knowledge, attitudes, and skills for working with dying patients and their families. Each student will be assigned to a patient-teacher with a life-threatening illness, and the focus of learning for the course will be each student’s ongoing relationship with the patient-teacher and his or her family. Structured learning experiences (large group case discussions, seminars, role plays, and guest lecturers) will address topics such as responses to suffering, symptom control, grief and loss, spiritual concerns, and ethical dilemmas. Mandatory small group discussions will allow students to receive supervision from experienced clinicians and to reflect on personal reactions to the visits with the patient-teacher.

Graded: Pass/No pass
May be taken only once for credit