Teaching: Timing – Part 2 – When to teach Essentials HPC content in your curriculum?
As we said last time, you need to plan time for teaching the Essentials module in your program. But is there a “best” time to teach this module? Is early better than later? In contrast to our recommendation to give students the materials early on, we have learned from ourselves and other instructors that there […]
Physician Assisted Suicide – CHPCA issues paper
I am including the link to the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care paper that summarizes the issues and discussion for and against PAS. It is meant to inform and encourage discussion of this topic among hospice palliative care providers, as well as the public. It offers a foundation of facts from which its members and others […]
Physician Assisted Suicide – CHPCA statement
THe recent decision by the BC courts to strike down the ban on PAS has brought the topic to the forefront again. The last time I wrote about Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) I was a student and the paper was thirty pages long. (Bless the prof who had to read it!) The Canadian Hospice Palliative […]
Teaching: Timing – Part 3 – When to assign the reflective writing assignments
This post will address when to start the students with the reflective writing “Baggage and Beliefs” section of the Study Guide For those unfamiliar with the Study Guide, you can have a peek inside by using this link to view a sample of the Beliefs and Baggage” exercises. These exercises encourage students to explore their […]
