Tag: medical education

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Ep. 511 Being with Dying: Teaching Death to Medical Students with Kevin Dieter MD

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Learn about innovative educational programs for medical students and the impact they are having.

My special guest Dr. Kevin Dieter is a family medicine and hospice and palliative care physician who helped to develop the nationally recognized palliative care curriculum at Northeast Ohio Medical University. He created a virtual learning module called “Being with Dying” for medical and pharmacy students to teach them what they need to know to be at the bedside of a dying patient. He discusses the course he offers, including training healthcare providers. Learn more from his website:

walking-home.com

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This episode includes:

  • How Kevin first learned about end-of-life care from his patient “Mary”
  • How Kevin went from being a family doctor to a hospice doctor
  • The value of exposing medical students to dying patients
  • 3 Pillars of wisdom:
    • dying are our teachers both directly and indirectly
    • we are the medicine for patients in our presence
    • dying is more than a medical event
  • How he helped initiate a learning experience called “The Hospice Patient as Teacher” for 3rd year medical students
  • How patients don’t want their physician to “run away” when they are dying
  • The power of home visits for patients
  • What “Being with Dying” consists of
  • Why this course can be replicated by other programs
  • Why he no longer talks about “good” or “bad” deaths
  • How Kevin became an Anam Cara

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Ep. 480 How to Train Your Doctor with Matthew Tyler MD

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Learn about palliative medicine from a physician who is also a popular content creator on social media.

My guest Dr. Matthew Tyler is a board certified physician in internal medicine as well as hospice and palliative medicine. He is the creator of How to Train Your Doctor, a coaching platform designed to help patients and caregivers make medical decisions related to serious illness and end of life. He specializes in creating short videos for social media that cover a variety of topics related to hospice and palliative medicine. Learn more at this website:

howtotrainyourdoctor.com

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This episode includes:

  • How Matt ended up choosing palliative medicine as a career path
  • Overview of palliative medicine and how it differs from hospice
  • What a palliative doctor does
  • How to find a palliative provider near you
  • Why early referrals to palliative medicine are important
  • How the palliative care team can help patients and families make decisions about medical care
  • Why many doctors can use training to have better serious illness and end-of-life conversations
  • Why Matt started creating content for social media sites
  • The power of short, informative videos online

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Ep. 253 Natural Birth, Natural Death: Healing our Broken Medical System with Nathan Riley MD

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Learn how honoring the sacredness of birth and death are key to healing the problems in our medical system.

My guest Dr. Nathan Riley specializes in both obstetrics and hospice and palliative care. He’ll share insights from his work at the beginning and the end of life and how the medical system fails to honor the sacredness of these two passages. We will discuss what needs to change in the medical system in order to heal disparities in medicine and honor natural birth and death. Learn more about Nathan’s podcast:

www.obgynowino.com

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This episode includes:

  • How Nathan was inspired by the work of Drs. Paul Farmer and Albert Schweitzer
  • Death and birth are equally mysterious and both are often taboo subjects in our society
  • Death and birth are both vulnerable times of life and are pathologized and medicalized by the healthcare system
  • Reframing death as the beginning of something new and expanded
  • The problem with doctors’ focus on “the good outcome” rather than on meeting the needs of the patient in the moment
  • What goes wrong during medical training that leads doctors away from the sacredness of medicine
  • Slowing down, listening and empathy are essential steps for healing the medical system and improving medical care
  • Why doctors fear emotional closeness with patients
  • Implicit bias and health disparities in medicine
  • Why we must look within ourselves first if we want to eradicate racism in the systems where we work

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  • Books by Victoria Sweet MD: Slow Medicine and God’s Hotel
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Ep. 237 Physician Burnout: Why Death Awareness Could Make a Difference

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Learn how death-denial may contribute to physician burnout and how to change it.

In this solo episode I share my thoughts on the inner reasons why physicians may burn out and how increased death awareness could be a solution. Now more than ever we need death-informed education for all physicians, which would transform medical practice in general and especially end-of-life care.

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Physician Burnout

This episode includes:

  • Survey showing that 44% of physicians report being burned out. largely due to external factors out of their control
  • Article by Dr. Keith Corl describes “moral injury” for physicians who are asked to practice in a way that violates their moral integrity
  • Multiple deeply-ingrained factors that arise from medical training and lead to lack of satisfaction in medical practice
  • 4 principles all med students should be taught:
    • Death is inevitable and not a failure
    • Death is a mystery we cannot control
    • Death makes life more precious
    • Dying is an opportunity for transformation
  • Doctors need to find balance between holding onto life and letting go when the time is right
  • Also need to learn to grieve over patient deaths in a positive way

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