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Palliative Care Immersion for 4th Year Medical Students: Evaluation of a Four-week Palliative Care Elective
1. Participants will be able to summarize the key components of the four-week curriculum offer to 4th year medical students.2. Participants will be able to evaluate the efficacy of the curriculum based on the learner-reported feedback about the educational curriculum. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Sean Gaffney, Paul Zimmerman Source Type: research

Partners in Healing, Part II: Adapting & Disseminating An Interdisciplinary Curriculum on Spirituality & Medicine
1. Drawing on a brand new curriculum syllabus, this poster presentation will enable participants to demonstrate the goals, methods and outcomes of an interdisciplinary curriculum focused on spiritual care in the hospital setting, and equip them to implement it at their specific institutions.2. Equip participants to evaluate the benefits of a creative, reflective, multi-discipline learning environment, and its relevance to clinical care. By investigating the connection between being present to another's humanity and being present in their own, participants will gain recognition of the need for holistic spiritual care -for p...
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: TJ Douglas, Rachel Rim, Ronald D. Adelman, Jon Overvold, Jean Walsh Source Type: research

Promoting Collaborative CL Psychiatry and Palliative Care Education via Combined Fellow-focused Case Conferences
1. Describe the benefits of integrating palliative care and psychiatry education and practice.2. Apply a collaborative model of training between palliative care and psychiatry to educational initiatives. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Dinaz Irani, Craig D. Blinderman, Jon Levenson, Sara S. Nash, Mary Callahan, Peter Shapiro, Daniel Shalev Source Type: research

Providing Comprehensive End of Life Care When Heated High Flow Nasal Cannula Is Not Enough
1. Utilizing a case-based and interactive approach, participants will self-report greater confidence in discussing a potential wean of HHFNC with patients and families.2. Utilizing a case-based and interactive approach, participants will self-report greater confidence in eliciting and exploring existential, cultural, and religious concerns in patients considering a palliative oxygen wean from maximum HHFNC. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Rachna Goswami, Joscelyne Dracca, Gina L. Biddle, Stacy Sayre, Alexis Barina Source Type: research

Responding to Medical Conspiracy Theories in Palliative Care
1. Participants will self-report the ability to explain how medical conspiracy theories may arise from both emotional reactions and cognitive distortions, and demonstrate how this dichotomy can lead to particular challenges within the palliative care clinical setting.2. Utilizing a case-based approach, participants will self-report the ability to employ communication strategies for responding to medical conspiracy theories, centered on maintaining and affirming understanding, empathy, critical thinking, and curiosity. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Michael V. Certo, Robert Arnold Source Type: research

SILK Collaborative: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Serious Illness Conversations for Patients with Liver Failure
1. Describe the creation of an interdisciplinary collaboration among hepatology, nephrology, critical care, and palliative care to improve serious illness care of patients with ACLF.2. Enhance participants understanding of best-case/worst-case and time-limited trial communication frameworks to guide goals of care conversations for patients with ACLF. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Saly Danielle, Alexis Drutchas, Stephanie B. Kiser, Nancy Mason, Vicki Jackson, Elizabeth Lindenberger, Nina Tolkoff-Rubin, Nneka Ufere Source Type: research

TACCT: Trainee Approach to Condolence Communication Training - A Pilot Study in Early Bereavement Education
1. Learners will be able to recognize high quality evidence for the importance of bereavement educations amongst medical trainees.2. Learners will see data on reactions of medical trainees to condolence-writing education and potential impact for their future practice. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Phoebe A. Winn, Taylor Aglio, Erica C. Kaye, Amanda Linz, Carrie Stallings, Arshia Madni Source Type: research

Teaching Conversations Around Advance Care Planning: A Novel Educational Model Utilizing a Peer Mentor Approach
1. Participants will be able to recognize the role of early exposure to the navigation of advance care planning conversations and palliative care needs of patients regardless of desired specialty in medicine.2. Participants will be able to describe a model for teaching advance care planning for early career professionals through a train-the-trainer model (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Shreyas G. Krishnapura, Nina B. Curkovic, Mohana B. Karlekar Source Type: research

Words Still Matter: The Overlooked Impact of Death Certificates for Grief, Closure, and Veterans' Survivor Benefits
1. Participants will be able to integrate understanding of the often-unrecognized impact a death certificate has on the grieving process and achieving closure for bereaved families into clinical practice when completing death certificates.2. Participants will be able to integrate knowledge of VA survivor benefits and legal procedures for amendment of death certificates into clinical practice when completing death certificates. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Kanya Rajagopalan, Joseph Shega, Ana Goncalves, Diana Treu Source Type: research

A Specialized Program for Hospice Patients Living with End Stage Heart Failure
1. Upon successful completion, participants will self-report the ability to describe the components of a disease-specific program for hospice patients living with end stage heart failure.2. Upon successful completion, participants will self-report the ability to describe how a disease-specific program for hospice patients living with end stage heart failure can benefit affected patients and their caregivers, hospices, and the health care system at large. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Manish Srivastava, Laura Alexoff Source Type: research

Accuracy of Medicare Local Coverage Determination Guidelines for Chronic Renal Failure
1. Participants will self-report the ability to name LCD criteria for chronic renal failure.2. Participants will be able to evaluate the prognostic utility of LCD guidelines compared to receiving an expected six months of hospice care. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Abigail Lewis, Nathan Moore, Katherine Ast, Randi Foraker, Patrick H. White Source Type: research

Barriers to Hospice Care on the Native American Reservation
1. Learners will identify barriers to accessing home hospice care for Native American patients living in rural areas.2. In acknowledging these barriers, healthcare teams will collaborate with local providers to ensure quality of end of life care at home. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Cayman Martin, Natsu Fukui Source Type: research

Barriers to Hospice Evaluation: Death Before Assessment for Hospice Eligibility
1. Participants will be able to identify some of the reasons patients die prior to assessment by the consulted hospice team. Participants will be empowered to work with their corresponding institutions to implement changes to overcome these barriers such that patients and their families can benefit from services provided by hospice.2. Participants will be able to appreciate the challenges faced by hospice teams to ensure that their services are used appropriately and on a timely basis for the benefit of the patient and their families. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Nadia Khosrodad, Arshia Madni Source Type: research

Blow-hole Colostomy For Malignant Large Bowel Obstruction: Non-Traditional Patient Centered Care While On Hospice
1. Participants will be able to explain why the blow-hole colostomy technique might be considered in the setting of comfort-focused care.2. Participants will be able to return to their own practice setting and discuss how aggressive interventions in comfort-focused care may align with hospice philosophy there, promoting dignity and optimizing quality of life. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Gabrielle J. Ezell, Gretchen J. Roe, Karen Ogle Source Type: research

Brrr - Understanding and Identifying Uremic Frost - An Icy Dermatologic Manifestation at the End of Life
1. Identify uremic frost from visual cues.2. Describe the mechanism for development of uremic frost and appropriate management. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Rachel Pallay, John Liantonio Source Type: research