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http://dx.doi.org/10.17496/kmer.2020.22.3.146

Hospice and Palliative Care Education for Medical Students in Korea  

Kim, Do Yeun (Department of Internal Medicine, Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital)
Lee, Soon Nam (Department of Internal Medicine, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine)
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Korean Medical Education Review / v.22, no.3, 2020 , pp. 146-152 More about this Journal
Abstract
Hospice and palliative care (HPC) education is an essential component of undergraduate medical education. Since February 4th, 2018, withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment at the end of life (EOL) has been permitted in Korea as put forth by law, the "Act on Hospice and Palliative Care and Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment for Patients at the End of Life." Therefore, Korean medical schools have faced a challenge in providing comprehensive HPC education in order to better prepare medical students to be competent physicians in fulfilling their role in caring for patients at the EOL. There have been considerable variations in the evolution and organization of HPC education across Korean medical schools for the past 20 years. In 2016, all medical schools taught HPC curriculum as a separate course or integrated courses, with the most frequently taught topics including: delivering bad news, pain management, and the concept of palliative medicine. However, the content, time allocation, learning format, and clinical skills practice training of HPC education have been insufficient, inconsistent, and diverse. For this reason, we propose a HPC curriculum containing seven domains with 60 learning objectives in a course duration of over 20 hours based on the Palliative Education Assessment Tool (PEAT) as standard HPC curriculum. Furthermore, we recommend development of a national curriculum for HPC/EOL care education to be organized by the HPC board and managed under the accreditation criteria of the Korea Institute of Medical Education and Evaluation.
Keywords
Curriculum; Hospice care; Medical education; Palliative care; Terminal care;
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