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At end of life, Baylor team fights the current, sometimes loses

Primary Author: Lee Hancock, Dallas Morning News

Part of a Dallas Morning News series on efforts to improve end-of-life medical care, this article covers efforts to ease suffering at the end-of-life at the Baylor University Medical Center. Included is a video in which Dr. Robert Fine and nurse Min Patel of the palliative care team discuss how to bring healing to patients and families at the end of life.

Date Last Modified 12/18/2008 Article, Video

Baylor team helps families understand death, face it together

Primary Author: Lee Hancock, Dallas Morning News

Part of a Dallas Morning News series on efforts to improve end-of-life medical care, this article describes a Baylor University Medical Center palliative care team's efforts to help patients and families face the end of life. Included is a video chronicling the story of one of their patients and her family.

Date Last Modified 12/18/2008 Article, Video

Give Me Strength: Spirituality in the Medical Encounter

Primary Author: Johns Hopkins University

A 27 minute video produced by the Johns Hopkins University. Topics covered include definitions of spirituality, reasons for addressing spirituality, spirituality and health outcomes, and ways in which spirituality helps patients.

Date Last Modified 05/01/2001 Video

Health and Spirituality (CME/CEU course)

Primary Author: Anne Harrington, Harvard University

Free online video CME/CEU course provided by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). The learning objectives are to understand the range of research traditions today that are investigating the relationship between health and spiritual practice; to understand the various historical roots of these traditions and how they interact in our own time; and to understand the different kinds of challenges-intellectual, ethical, political-raised by this research enterprise.

NOTE: You will need to register with the NCCAM website to view this video and take the course.

Date Last Modified 01/12/2009 Continuing Education course, Tutorial, Video

The HeART of Empathy: Using the Visual Arts in Medical Education

Primary Author: Florence Gelo, Drexel University College of Medicine

The Heart of Empathy video, and its accompanying Facilitator's Guide, captures Dr. Gelo's technique of using the visual arts to teach medical students and residents how to emotionally prepare for and deal with their patients' suffering and dying.

As medical students and residents view the suffering portrayed in the paintings, the facilitator helps them to articulate and recognize their emotional reactions. Through focused observation and expression of feelings in a non-judgmental humanistic setting, students may cultivate the ability to acknowledge and address the emotional lives of their patients.

Inspired by her experience as a Philadelphia Museum of Art tour guide, Dr. Gelo began to notice the emotional impact of paintings on the viewer, and imagined their use as a powerful teaching resource in medical education. For five years, Dr. Gelo has introduced small groups of Drexel University College of Medicine students and residents to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where they view and discuss paintings that depict death and dying. This unique experience has been captured in The Heart of Empathy.

The accompanying Facilitator's guide includes program models, resources and suggestions for classroom use.

Date Last Modified 11/01/2008 Video, Faculty Development materials, Manual/guide