BHCRI Advance Care Planning
BHCRI Advance Care Planning
Project Title
Educating Nova Scotia physicians to initiate and engage in advance care planning for cancer patients: a mixed methods study
Time Period and Funding
2014-2016, Ivor Hamilton Cancer Care and Education Award from the , $39,715
Principal Investigator
Co-investigators
Grace Johnston, Geoff Porter, Paul McIntyre, David Henderson, Anne Frances d’Intino, Joan Sargeant, Fred Burge, and Cynthia Kendall
Project Staff
Terrilyn Chaisson for curricular review
Lindsay Grant-Nunn for interviews
Objectives:
- Identify how physicians are currently trained in advance care planning (ACP)
- Understand patients’ and families’ views of ACP and what they need from their physicians during the process
- Develop and evaluate an interactive workshop for physicians on ACP
Methods
Phase 1 is a curricular review of undergraduate medical education, post-graduate medical education, and continuing professional development at Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s Faculty of Medicine and interviews with 8-10 cancer patients who are suitable candidates for ACP and 8-10 family members of patients with advanced cancer.
Phase 2 is the development of an ACP interactive educational workshop, informed by Phase 1 findings and the most current available best-practice physician education.
Phase 3 is the piloting and evaluation of the educational workshop: participants’ acceptability, satisfaction, confidence, outcome expectancies, and recommendations.
Outputs
The main outcome will be an educational resource for physicians on ACP.
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