Advance Directives

Advance Directives
Duke University School of Medicine
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Product ID: 18747

Abstract: 
Members of the Duke University Medical Center Division of Geriatric Medicine offer a brief lecture on advance directives and practical instruction on communicating with older patients about their preferences for end of life care.

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Educational objectives: 
Learners should be able to:
  1. Define and differentiate advance directives for health care, including instructional directives and health care proxies.
  2. Describe the legal and practical purposes of the various forms of advance directives.
  3. Describe the limitations of advance directives with respect to health care decision making at the end of life.
  4. Describe the process for completing a living will, health care power of attorney and do not resuscitate order and become familiar with the various forms for each.
  5. Develop skills in effectively and empathetically communicating with patients and family members in various situations, including healthy and sick patients, in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
Additional information/Special implementation requirements or guidelines: 
Numbers and types of learners: 20 medical students

Implementation Environment: teaching sessions during internal medicine clerkship

Additional Product Information:
  1. Review guidelines for conducting role play discussions, giving feedback for case discussions
  2. May need to reduce edit/reduce PowerPoint slides to allow time for discussion
Date posted: 
Tue, 08/21/2007
Date last updated: 
Tue, 08/21/2007
CME credits available: 
No
Has this product been peer reviewed?: 
No
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Contact person/corresponding author: 
Katja Elbert-Avila (elber002@mc.duke.edu)
Authors: 
Katja Elbert-Avila
Anthony Galanos
Mitchell Heflin
NLM Citation:
Elbert-Avila, K, Galanos, A and Heflin, M. Advance Directives. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education; 2007 Available from: http://www.pogoe.org/productid/18747
APA Citation:
Elbert-Avila, K, Galanos, A and Heflin, M. (2007). Advance Directives. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from http://www.pogoe.org/productid/18747