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Resident-Led Palliative Care Education Project

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Palliative Medicine, February 2016
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Title
Resident-Led Palliative Care Education Project
Published in
Journal of Palliative Medicine, February 2016
DOI 10.1089/jpm.2015.0246
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Authors

Naomi Karlen, Brian Cruz, A.E. Leigh

Abstract

Despite the growth of palliative medicine, 39% of hospitals do not have palliative care teams for consultation or to provide resident education. We examined the impact of resident-led education in palliative care principles on attitudes toward and comfort with palliative medicine and end-of-life care among internal medicine residents. An educational module designed by the authors was presented to other internal medicine residents in the program. Pre- and post-intervention survey data measuring residents' agreement with various statements regarding palliative medicine and end-of-life care were analyzed. Residents' agreement with various statements regarding palliative medicine and end-of-life care on a 5-point Likert scale was analyzed. Following the intervention, participants reported improved comfort with general knowledge of palliative medicine (p < 0.01), specific resources available to patients (p < 0.001), and explaining the difference between palliative care and end-of-life care (p < 0.001). In each of the seven specific domains of palliative medicine covered in the educational session, residents reported a statistically significant increase in comfort in all of the areas addressed (p < 0.05). This study demonstrates that a resident-led curriculum in palliative medicine can improve resident comfort within this still-under-represented area of medicine.

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Unknown 30 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 23%
Other 5 17%
Researcher 5 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 7%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 5 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 13 43%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 20%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 7%
Social Sciences 2 7%
Psychology 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 6 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 April 2016.
All research outputs
#15,090,466
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Palliative Medicine
#2,040
of 3,163 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#206,746
of 409,533 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Palliative Medicine
#37
of 55 outputs
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