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The Medical Manual for Religio-Cultural Competence: Caring for Religiously Diverse Populations

Primary Author: Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding

This book "details how religious traditions and practices affect medical decisions in ten major world religions - Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Shinto, Traditional Chinese, American Indian & Alaska Natives and Afro-Caribbean." It is a guidebook for medical practice.

Date Last Modified 12/01/2009 Book

A multidisciplinary training program for spiritual care in palliative care

Primary Author: Palliative Care Australia

Complete curriculum materials for trainers including, instructor's guide, slide presentations, videos, vignettes, and handouts.

Requires registration with a free account to access.

Date Last Modified 12/31/2007 Course curriculum

New Medicine Educational Training Clips

Primary Author: The Bravewell Collaborative

Six 5-minute training videos that address the patient-provider relationship and the importance of integrative medicine. The videos use footage filmed for The New Medicine and can be viewed on the website or downloaded as Quicktime files. The titles of the videos are:

- Being Ill is a Transformative Experience
- A Patients Sense of Abandonment
- Every Patient Comes to a Doctor for One Thing
- Listening to the Story is Critical
- Maeves Story: One Patients Experience with the Wrong Doctor
- Maeves Story: The Resolution

Date Last Modified Video, Website

Nothing Left Unsaid: Creating a Healing Legacy with Final Words and Letters

Primary Author: Mary Polce-Lynch, Randolph-Macon College

Rituals exist to settle estates and bequeath material possessions after people die, but there isn't a ritual for making sure that nothing is left unsaid to loved ones. Messages of love, forgiveness, life lessons, hopes, and personal legacy can prevent regret during the grieving process and bring meaning to life in the present.

This resource assists people in writing two types of personal legacies: 1) Final Words written to loved ones before a person's death, and; 2) Legacy Letters written to loved ones approaching the end of their life due to age, illness, or going into harm's way. Both rituals create a different kind of inheritance to ensure that nothing is left unsaid.

Date Last Modified 10/10/2009 Exercise, Manual/guide

Patient Perspectives on Spirituality and the Patient-Physican Relationship

Primary Author: Randy S. Herbert, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Article from the Journal of General Internal Medicine describing an in-depth study of 22 patients hospitalized with a life-threatening illness. The authors found that all participants stressed the importance of physician empathy, but physician-initiated conversation without a strong patient-physician relationship was viewed as inappropriate.

Date Last Modified 10/16/2001 Article