Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care (EPEC)

This is part of a national initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to improve our ability to help patients with advanced illness, including those at the ends of their lives.

This course is a one-day seminar away from your clinical workloads to allow time to reflect and grow together.

The student will receive intense instruction of the following topics:

• Gaps in end-of-life care
• Legal issues
• Elements and models of end-of-life care
• Advance care planning
• Communicating bad news
• Whole patient assessment
• Pain management
• Physician-assisted  suicide
• Depression, anxiety, delirium
• Goals of Care
• Sudden illness
• Medical futility
• Common physical symptoms
• Withholding/withdrawing treatment
• Last hours of living