A Program to Teach Residents Humanistic Skills for Notifying Survivors of a Patient's Death.

Davis, Wayne K.

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ERIC Number: EJ396786

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1989

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A Program to Teach Residents Humanistic Skills for Notifying Survivors of a Patient's Death.

Davis, Wayne K.

Academic Medicine, v64 n9 p505-06 Sep 1989

A program using role-playing to model humanistic attitudes and encourage humanistic behavior in internal medicine residents is described. Resident attitudes and key features relating to the program's success are noted. (MSE)

Descriptors: Communication Skills, Death, Graduate Medical Education, Helping Relationship, Higher Education, Internal Medicine, Interpersonal Communication, Physician Patient Relationship, Program Descriptions, Role Playing, Student Attitudes

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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