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The curriculum design team will complete a needs assessment package that documents current educational offerings in Palliative Care; delineates educational barriers and opportunities to curriculum change; and results of an attitude survey and knowledge test administered to selected faculty, M3 and M4 students.
Each school will be visited by one project faculty member for a two-day site visit to review their needs assessment, provide information and materials regarding successful models of experiential palliative care education, and help the school develop an Action Plan to guide their work. This same project faculty member will serve as the school’s mentor for the grant period.
Didactic Curriculum: A centralized online training will be available for all schools to use. Schools with an existing didactic educational product may decline to use the centralized on-line training, but must be able to demonstrate that their material is similar in scope to that provided by the project.
Each school must send one faculty member to the Harvard Medical School Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice (PCEP) course. The school will be responsible for faculty travel expenses.
Each school will have ongoing mentoring from their site visit faculty; contact between the mentor and their assigned school will occur monthly. Schools will provide quarterly written progress reports and a final report. All team members will be linked through an e-mail listserve, which will serve as a forum for discussion of medical education and clinical care palliative care integration.
Project teams from all three schools will gather for a one-day conference in 2010 to review progress and share information.
Willingness to submit the school’s experience to a peer reviewed educational meeting (e.g., a national clerkship directors meeting; regional AAMC meeting—GEA) or to an invited regional or national educational forum. Other opportunities for academic work-product resulting from participation will be encouraged.
For Information Contact Judi Rehm 414-456-4353 jrehm@mcw.edu