Wednesday 27 August 2014

Teaching general practitioners and doctors-in-training to discuss advance care planning: evaluation of a brief multimodality education programme

BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care 2014;Vol/iss 4/3 (313-321)
Karen Detering, William Silvester, Charlie Corke, Sharyn Milnes, Rachael Fullam, Virginia Lewis, Jodie Renton

The authors report the results of the evaluation of an interactive advance care planning (ACP) educational programme for general practitioners and doctors-in-training. They conclude that the programme significantly improved the doctors’ self-reported confidence in discussing advance care planning, improved their scores on the patient e-simulation exercise and was rated highly by the majority of participants.

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