Practice of palliative medicine education in the teaching of geriatrics / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

This article introduces the development history of palliative medicine at home and abroad, investigates the existing problems of palliative medicine teaching in geriatrics, explores the improvement of geriatric palliative medicine education, and elaborates adopting theoretical teaching and clinical practice, including PBL teaching, case teaching and narrative medicine teaching, to carry out palliative medical education for geriatrics graduate students. The results showed that 67.9% of the students have increased the learning sense of palliative medicine, 92.5% of them think that palliative medicine is very important, and 75% of them think that they have enhanced their ability of language expression and communication with patients with advanced diseases, namely, the ability of end-of-life care.