Issues of Death and Dying Added to Medical Student Curriculum

Medical students at the University are getting new lessons on issues many seasoned medical professionals have difficulty with: how to communicate effectively with patients nearing death.

Thanks to a $130,000 grant from the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the School of Medicine and Dentistry began implementing a new curriculum to give students in-depth exposure to end-of-life issues.

Students will spend time interviewing patients who are dying and talking with their families to put a human face on issues studied in the classroom.

Timothy Quill, professor of medicine and psychiatry and head of the University's Program for Biopsychosocial Studies, will oversee the curriculum.

"This is an important piece of learning that is ordinarily omitted in the education of doctors," Quill says.

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