Dying in America: Palliative and End-Of-Life Care, Des Moines University

This elective course is based upon the Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care (EPEC) Curriculum. An emphasis is placed on selected components of the EPEC curriculum and the arts and the humanities are incorporated into the elective to foster a more comprehensive understanding of the psycho-social-spiritual of death and dying. This elective seeks to provide students with skills and tools to assist them in ameliorating, but not eliminating the fear, negative images, and avoidance responses to death that are common among health care professionals who have traditionally viewed death as failure. This elective also seeks to provide students with skills and tools to assist them in providing competent and compassionate End-of-Life Care and to assist them in the development of resilience so necessary for health care professionals who care for those with serious life limiting conditions and terminal illnesses. This information has been collected for the Post-Discipline Online Syllabus Database. The database explores the use of literature by schools of professional education in North America. It forms part of a larger project titled Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities, led by Dr Merve Emre with the assistance of Dr Hayley G. Toth. You can find more information about the project at https://postdiscipline.english.ox.ac.uk/. Data was collected and accurate in 2021/22.