1. Introduction

Handout (Link)- Caring For The Person, Not Just The Patient In End-of-Life Care

My Wish for You
Phases of Grief, Understanding Mourning
Exercises to Explore Attitudes/Self Assessment Quiz

With the patient
Overheads (Links)
• Clinical Indications for Discussing End-of-Life Care
• Questions to Improve Discussion of End-of-Life
• The Wrong Way to Deal with Patients and Families
• ABCDE’s of Delivering Bad News - In Rabow & MccPhee
• Strategies for Clinicians to Help Patients Who Suffer - In Rabow & McPhee
Handouts (Links)
• Rabow MW, McPhee SJ. Beyond breaking bad news: how to help patients who suffer. WJM 1999;171: 260-263. Available as PDF file at: http://www.ewjm.com/cgi/reprint/171/4/260 
• Cross-cultural aspects (Links)
Cross-Cultural Responses to Grief and Mourning
Cross-cultural Awareness of Death Issues
With the family
Overhead & Handout (Link) - 7 Step Guide to the Family Meeting
Information - From a Organ donation family member - Suggestions for the Medical Team

Overheads
• Being with a Dying Person - Quotations
• Supporting Transcendence and Meaning/Life Review 
• See also Strategies for Clinicians to Help Patients Who Suffer 
Article - Maizes V. Listening for what is not said. WJM. 2001;174:216-217. Available at:
http://www.ewjm.com/cgi/content/full/174/3/216
Handout (Link) - Being with a Dying Person
Quotation - Tibetian Book of the Living and the Dying

Quiz - Death Pronouncement – Knowledge Assessment
Overhead 
• Declaring a Death
• Delivering Bad News
Handout (Link) - Declaring a Death, Death Pronouncement and Death Notification

Why do we do this?
Overhead - Rewards for the Physician dealing with End-of-Life Care
What helps to cope?
Articles
Dyer KA. The Potential Impact of CODES on Team Members: Examining Medical
Education Training. Trauma Response Fall/Winter 2001;7:19-21. Available at:
http://www.aaets.org/arts/art95.htm
Rabow MW, McPhee SJ. Doctoring to Heal: Fostering well-being among physicians through personal reflection. West J Med 2001;174:66-69. Available at: http://www.ewjm.com/cgi/content/full/174/1/66
Hawes Clever L. A checklist for making good choices in trying — or tranquil — times 
West J Med 2001;174:41-43. Available at: http://www.ewjm.com/cgi/content/full/174/1/41
Epstein RM. Just Being. West J Med 2001;174:63-65. Available at: http://www.ewjm.com/cgi/content/full/174/1/63
Overhead - Healthy Coping Strategies
Information - Fostering Physician Compassion
Brainstorming - How can we improve death education?