Palliative Medicine

(4 Credits)

This elective in Palliative Medicine is based on the tenets of interdisciplinary care, expert pain and symptom management and an introduction to communication skills and complex decision making. Students will learn through didactic and clinical/bedside teaching ways to engage patients living with serious medical illness and patients approaching the end of life. Students will appreciate the value of team-based care through their participation on the palliative interdisciplinary team. Students will begin to develop skills for primary palliative care.