Peer-designed Parents’ Bereavement Panel: Exposing First-year Medical Students to Pediatric End-of-life Care

Program Goals: Despite the Liaison Committee for Medical Education (LCME) mandatory requirement for the incorporation of end-of-life care education into medical school curriculum, very few studies have reported successful approaches, and standardization across medical schools is lacking. Furthermore, very little effort has focused on the incorporation of pediatric-specific end-of-life care education into the preclinical years. The purpose of this study is to determine whether a bereavement panel consisting of parents who had a child pass away from a life threatening condition: (1) improved …