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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

2013 Spirituality And Clinical Care Course Syllabus

Primary Author: M. Kay Sandor, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Syllabus developed for UTMB Nursing, Medical, and Allied Health Students through a grant from the John Templeton Foundation Spirituality and Medicine Award administered by GWish. Case studies and a bibliography are included.

These materials may be used in other courses with credit given to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston as the United States Copyright owner.

Date Last Modified 01/01/2009 Course curriculum, Case example/study

Spiritual Assessment in Clinical Practice

Primary Author: Christina M Puchalski, George Washington University Medical Center

Multimedia guide to assessing the spiritual beliefs, values, and practices important in patients' responses to illness or stress.

Date Last Modified 01/01/2009 Tutorial, Video

Spiritual and Cultural Aspects of Palliative Care and The Interdisciplinary Team

Primary Author: Yale School of Medicine

Case 2 of the Yale Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Educational Program is an interactive computer-based clinical case of a woman with metastatic breast cancer. The objectives are for students to:

- Understand the basic precepts and goals of Palliative Care.
- Recognize common misconceptions about opioids (pain medication).
- Identify the importance of addressing the spiritual and cultural needs of a patient with terminal illness and understand how to get these needs met.
- Understand the clinical features of imminent death and how to help the patient and family during this time.
- Recognize the contributions of all health care professionals and understand the importance of the interdisciplinary team in the care of the patient with terminal illness.

Students are asked to reflect on aspects of the case.

Note: The module is accessible to anyone, but you will need to respond to five brief demographic questions.

Date Last Modified 12/31/2008 Tutorial, Case example/study, Standardized Patient Case

Religion, Risk, and Medical Decision Making at the End of Life

Primary Author: Peter H. Van Ness, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health

Article from the Journal of Aging and Health describing a study about whether religious patients are more or less willing to undergo the risks associated with potentially life-sustaining treatment. The authors concluded that "Not all dimensions of religiousness have the same association with willingness to undergo potentially life-sustaining treatment. Seriously ill older, religious patients are not especially predisposed to avoid risk and resist treatment".

Date Last Modified 08/01/2008 Article