Effect of a compassion-focused training program in palliative care education for medical students

The American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care
Chih-Yuan ShihTai-Yuan Chiu

Abstract

Compassion is the key value of humanities perspective. Little is known, however, concerning the impact of enhancing compassion on ethical decision making in end-of-life care. A total of 251 preclinical medical students were enrolled in a palliative care training course. A structured self-report questionnaire was administered before and after training. Experience with caring for patients with terminal cancer was positively related to improvement in the decision of "truth telling is helpful to a good death." In addition, improvement in the perception of "compassionate care" was correlated with higher improvement in the decision of "discharge planning and home care." Compassion-focused training program can be helpful to improve medical students' competence in making more appropriate ethical decisions in end-of-life care.

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