Hospice volunteers in the curriculum of medical psychology: effects of their visitation

dc.creator	Fischbeck, Sabine
dc.creator	Deister, Tonja
dc.creator	Gladisch, Katharina
dc.date	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:11:52Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:11:52Z
dc.identifier	1860-7446
dc.identifier	1860-3572
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/ddea2385788d4b54969b089ba4bf53cf
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/14775
dc.description	"Dying and death" is rather an infrequent topic in the course of medical psychology at the beginning of medical studies. Indeed the issue "interaction with terminally ill and deceasing patients" is for most students of particular importance. To accommodate with the students interest, we diversify the lessons related to practice. Therefore we invite hospice volunteers to participate our courses since the winterterm of 2000/01. They give account of their experience and report how to accompany terminally ill patients during their last days. We wanted to investigate the effect of the hospice volunteer presentation on the students attitude towards the hospice volunteer assignment. We designed a questionnaire based on expert rating and literature studies, to requested our students (N = 205; 57% female, 43% male) as well as the hospice volunteers (N = 9) to execute it in winterterm 2003/04. Based on the students dates we were able to develop four reliable scales due to a factor analysis (explained total variance = 55%): I. encouragement to vocational training; II. clarification of the need of expertice; III. sensitisation for the concerned persons experiences; IV. pointing the value of hospice work. The hospice volunteers evaluated the scales from their point of view. The most distinctive result was attained in scales I (M = 4,4) and II (M = 3,7). In fact regarding the teaching effects we received similar results for both groups. The hospice volunteers visitation obtained positive response.teaching evaluation, hospice volunteers, medical education, medical students, death and dying
dc.publisher	German Medical Science, Düsseldorf
dc.relation	http://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/zma/2005-22/zma000009.shtml
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1860-7446
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1860-3572
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source	GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung, Vol 22, Iss 1, p Doc09 (2005)
dc.subject	teaching evaluation
dc.subject	hospice volunteers
dc.subject	medical education
dc.subject	medical students
dc.subject	death and dying
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.title	Hospice volunteers in the curriculum of medical psychology: effects of their visitation
dc.type	article