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The Medical Manual for Religio-Cultural Competence: Caring for Religiously Diverse PopulationsPrimary 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
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A multidisciplinary training program for spiritual care in palliative carePrimary Author: Palliative Care Australia
Complete curriculum materials for trainers including, instructor's guide, slide presentations, videos, vignettes, and handouts.
Date Last Modified 12/31/2007
Course curriculum
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New Medicine Educational Training ClipsPrimary 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:
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Video, Website
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Nothing Left Unsaid: Creating a Healing Legacy with Final Words and LettersPrimary 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.
Date Last Modified 10/10/2009
Exercise, Manual/guide
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Patient Perspectives on Spirituality and the Patient-Physican RelationshipPrimary 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
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