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Chronic Care Clerkship - Conjoint 690

Major Content Themes

The clerkship has been designed to focus on a series of content themes relevant to all clinical areas included. These themes include:

  • Communication of poor prognosis
  • Team process
  • Clinical assessment in chronic disease, disability, and when to appropriately introduce palliative care
  • Systems of care delivery in chronic disease, disability, and life limiting illness including:
    • community resources
    • health services delivery
    • health care financing
    • ethical issues
  • Issues and attitudes surrounding the processes of caring vs. curing
  • Quality of life issues: Assessment and identification of psycho-social-spiritual factors contributing to quality of life that can be supported by the health care team.
  • Community based management of care (outside the hospital and clinic setting)
  • Management of medical issues from the patient and family perspective.

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