TY - JOUR
T1 - Goals, Values, and Priorities of Hospitalized Patients
T2 - Using a Structured Communication Tool to Engage Medical Students in Serious Illness Communication
AU - Frydman, Julia L.
AU - Gelfman, Laura P.
AU - Farquhar, Diane
AU - Ramaswamy, Ravishankar
AU - Dow, Lindsay A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
PY - 2024/1/1
Y1 - 2024/1/1
N2 - Background: To build third-year medical students’ serious illness communication skills, we implemented a structured communication tool—the VALUES tool—focused on patients’ goals, values, and priorities and described students’ experiences using this tool. Methods: Medical students participated in a social worker-led VALUES didactic and discussion with a patient on the palliative care consult service and, subsequently, completed an anonymous survey about their comfort with the VALUES tool and its usefulness for learning (5-point Likert scales). Results: Of the 142 medical students who participated in the VALUES didactic, 37 completed the survey (26%). The VALUES tool was rated highly in terms of usefulness (mean 4.5; standard deviation [SD] 0.7) and rated lower in terms of overall comfort (mean 3.7; SD 0.7). Conclusion: Our project explored the integration of a VALUES tool into medical student education, and we show that the tool is well rated by learners in terms of comfort and usefulness.
AB - Background: To build third-year medical students’ serious illness communication skills, we implemented a structured communication tool—the VALUES tool—focused on patients’ goals, values, and priorities and described students’ experiences using this tool. Methods: Medical students participated in a social worker-led VALUES didactic and discussion with a patient on the palliative care consult service and, subsequently, completed an anonymous survey about their comfort with the VALUES tool and its usefulness for learning (5-point Likert scales). Results: Of the 142 medical students who participated in the VALUES didactic, 37 completed the survey (26%). The VALUES tool was rated highly in terms of usefulness (mean 4.5; standard deviation [SD] 0.7) and rated lower in terms of overall comfort (mean 3.7; SD 0.7). Conclusion: Our project explored the integration of a VALUES tool into medical student education, and we show that the tool is well rated by learners in terms of comfort and usefulness.
KW - goal-concordant care
KW - patients’ goals and values
KW - serious illness communication
KW - undergraduate medical education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85176595929&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1089/jpm.2023.0281
DO - 10.1089/jpm.2023.0281
M3 - Article
C2 - 37878370
AN - SCOPUS:85176595929
SN - 1096-6218
VL - 27
SP - 99
EP - 103
JO - Journal of Palliative Medicine
JF - Journal of Palliative Medicine
IS - 1
ER -