The End of Life Education Fellowship Program is a six-week summer experience designed to introduce fourteen to sixteen medical students to end of life care issues. Offered in Chicago, IL and Fort Lauderdale, FL, the End of Life Education Fellowship Program combines an orientation to end of life care with weekly seminars and field placements at local hospices, nursing homes, and inpatient units.  This year’s program will take place from June 23-August 1, 2008.

 

At both program sites, fellows will spend one to two days per week in seminar sessions and three to four days a week rotating through placement sites where they will work with various preceptors to gain the broadest exposure to a variety of EOL care settings. While at their program sites, Fellows will also be expected to develop end of life curricula to be implemented at their medical schools and to be shared on the web with medical schools across the nation. Although students will have to secure their own housing for the program (with assistance from their program site in identifying potential neighborhoods), a stipend will be provided to assist in covering most living expenses.

 

As an EOL Fellow, students will:

--Develop and practice basic interviewing and communication skills essential to EOL care

--Understand the psychological, sociological, cultural and spiritual aspects of death and dying

--Understand the pathophysiology and management of common symptoms at the end of life

--Recognize and respond to cultural, linguistic, and spiritual diversity

--Design and develop a plan for integrating EOL education into the curricula of the students' medical schools and residency programs.

 

In order to be eligible, applicants must have completed their first year of medical school by June 2008. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.  For more information and the application, please visit www.amsa.org/eol.  Applications are due Monday, March 24, 2008.

 

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Angelia Bowman

AMSA Foundation

1902 Association Drive

Reston, VA  20191

703.620.6600 ext 216

703.620.5873 (fax)

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