Medical College of Georgia Augusta, Ga.

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Medical College of Georgia Augusta, Ga.

• Aditi Sethi

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Whats available currently?

• First Year Wit viewing/discussion
• Second Year 1 hr. lecture on Hospice Care and 1
  hr. lecture on Legal and Ethical aspects of
  medicine.
• Third/Fourth Year Elective offered - Legal
  Issues in Medicine
• The director of this course, Ms. Schwab, is
  willing and interested in working with a local
  hospice to incorporate more information on
  Hospice and Palliative Care.
• Have workshops and refresher sessions in
  communicating bad news to patients.
• Possibly incorporate hospice and palliative care
  into the Internal Medicine rotation for students.

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Thoughts and Ideas

• Lunch and Learns (view To Live Until I die,
  Informal Q/A sessions on Hospice and Palliative
  Care)
• Education/discussion groups for 3rd and 4th years
• Forum/Symposium on EOL care
• Various viewpoints on death and dying
• Cultural aspects of EOL care
• Hospice team, family members and patients present
  at the forum

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Thoughts and Ideas contd.

• Help to educate physicians more about hospice and
  palliative care by inviting them to these
  discussions/forums/lunches
• Continue to make suggestions of ways to
  incorporate various lectures from this internship
  into the curriculum of the ECM course.
• Work to have a pain management lecture added to
  the Pharm curriculum, as well as a physiology of
  death and dying added to the physiology
  curriculum
• Find ways to encourage the professors and staff
  to start incorporating the language of
  palliative care into the basic science
  curriculum the first two years of medical school.

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Some more.

• Use the death and dying interest group as a way
  to gather students to discuss EOL issues.
• Offer 1st and 2nd years the opportunity to
  volunteer with Hospice.

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Who can help?

• Jeff Flowers Hospital Chaplain
• Interested in having me work with the Ethics
  Committee to sponsor a full day of discussion on
  EOL care and Palliative Care
• Interested in an ongoing lecture series
  (brown bag lunches)

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Dr. Salazar

• - Professor in the Dept. of Behavioral Medicine
• Interested in changing DNR orders to AND (Allow
  Natural Death)
• Would be interested in organizing seminars as
  part of the psychosocial rotation for IM
  residents and students

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Dr. Kattine

• - Medical director of St. Josephs Hospice in
  Augusta
• She is currently working to make a free standing
  Hospice facility in Augusta, Ga.
• Wants to work with me on future projects
• She is interested in putting together a little
  booklet/pamphlet for doctors and students
• Pain management made easy or something like that

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Dr. Ines Berger

• Runs a cancer and palliative care clinic
• She is interested in educating physicians about
  palliative care, and she claims that physicians
  do not utilize her services often enough. She
  would be interested in having a lunch series for
  physicians as well.
• There is some interest in starting an inpatient
  service for care. Currently there is an
  outpatient service with nurse, pharm, pain doc,
  psych, chaplain, and SW

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JT Tolentino 4th year

• We need better training on how EOL care is
  delivered, and how we as clinicians need to
  approach patients.
• I wish MCG would somehow integrate Hospice time
  for medical students to speak with families and
  patients to learn how they deal with things so we
  can have some experience.

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