Volume 72 Number 5 September 2005	back to contents

1Visiting Doctors Program, and 2Dean of Medical Education and Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.

Address all correspondence to Marina Burke, Box 1216, Mount Sinai Medical Center, One East 100th Street, New York, NY 10029; email: marina.burke@msnyuhealth.org

ABSTRACT

Recent data have shown that medical students do not receive adequate exposure to the practice of home care. The number of homebound people is expected to increase, and health care services for these patients will need to expand. A one-week didactic and clinical curriculum was designed and implemented by four nurse practitioners in the Visiting Doctors Program, to provide home care exposure to medical students. The program stresses the medical, psychosocial and palliative aspects of patient care. The students evaluated both the nurse practitioners and the program favorably, using a five-point Likert scale. Role modeling and professionalism were noted to be of value to the students, and bear further study in the context of medical school curricula for home care.

KEY WORDS

Home care services, education, medical students, nurse practitioners, palliative care, patient care, curriculum.

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