MED 4390 Palliative Medicine
Provide senior student with the opportunity to participate in home palliative care and pain control for terminally ill patients. Goals: Provide multi-disciplined approach to palliative care. Encompasses nursing, social work, pastoral care, volunteers, home health aides and bereavement services. Focus is holistic, addressing medical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of patients/families. Participates in home visits with the disciplines, attends lectures, observes output visits.
Offered
Veteran Affairs Medical Center (DCVA) - Washington, D.C.