Download the End-of-Life Care Literature Database (Final Update 1/2004)
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PREVIOUS SFDC PROGRAM: END-OF-LIFE CARE
The Stanford Faculty Development Center facilitator-training course in
End-of-Life Care (ELC), held from 2000 to 2002, trained a total of 17
ELC facilitators. The 1-month training provided participants with background
knowledge and seminar leadership skills required to deliver a series of
2-hour seminars to their colleagues and to residents at their home institutions.
Topics included an overview on death and dying in the U.S.A.; pain management;
communicating with patients and families; making difficult decisions;
non-pain symptom management; venues and systems of care; and psychiatric
issues and spirituality.
The seminars were designed to enhance physicians' competence in providing
end-of-life care, foster a commitment to improving care for the dying,
and improve physicians' ability to teach about end-of-life care to medical
trainees. Results of program evaluation showed:
- Extremely high ratings for educational and clinical relevance of seminars
- Significant increases in knowledge related to end-of-life care
- Significant increases in confidence to perform palliative medicine skills
- Significant increases in confidence to teach those skills to students and house staff
- Increased positive attitudes re: palliative medicine
Facilitators trained at Stanford continue to teach the ELC seminars and to adapt the
material to the needs of their institutions. Trained facilitators also serve as regional
and national faculty development resources for end-of-life care.
The SFDC has released an innovative Internet version of the teaching curriculum on end-of-life care, in partnership with Growth House, Inc.
Program Faculty: James Hallenbeck, MD; Sara Katz, PhD; Jon Fuller, MD;
Steve Pantilat, MD; Michael Rabow, MD; and program alumni.
List of Trained Facilitators:
| 17 Institutions |
17 Facilitators |
Program |
| Boston University Medical Center, Boston,
MA |
Jennifer Hughes |
ELC 2002 |
| Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH |
Richard Christie |
ELC 2000 |
| Highland Gen Hosp/Alameda Co Med Center,
Oakland, CA |
Sheira Freedman |
ELC 2001 |
| Massachusetts Medical Society, Waltham,
MA |
John Fromson |
ELC 2000 |
| Mount Sinai Medical School, City University
of New York |
Cynthia Pan |
ELC 2000 |
| Pennsylvania State University, Hershey,
PA |
Dennis Johnson |
ELC 2000 |
| Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose,
CA |
Gary Lee |
ELC 2000 |
| St. Mary's Hospital, San Francisco, CA |
Denis Bouvier |
ELC 2001 |
| Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
Annette Geisler |
ELC 2002 |
| The Chester County Hospital, West Chester,
PA |
Robin Turner |
ELC 2002 |
| University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL |
Carol Griffin |
ELC 2002 |
| University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR |
A Reed Thompson |
ELC 2000 |
| University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL |
Gary Reisfield |
ELC 2002 |
| University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI |
Emese Somogyi-Zalud |
ELC 2001 |
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
Mary Wisely |
ELC 2001 |
| University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE |
William Minier |
ELC 2001 |
| University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK |
Jeffrey Alderman |
ELC 2002 |
Last modified 04.27.2005
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