Percepción de preparación de los internos y egresados de Medicina para enfrentar la muerte de un paciente.

Autores/as

  • Dominga Rodríguez Christian Universidad del Desarrollo
  • Pedro Lavín Ferrada Universidad del Desarrollo
  • Juan Pablo Beca Infante Clínica Alemana

Palabras clave:

Attitude of Health Personnel, Attitude to Death, Curriculum, Health Communication, Education, Medical

Resumen

Background: Historically, death has been socially accepted, but for the last decades it has been hidden in hospitals, transforming physicians into “death specialists''. Thus, medical graduates should feel prepared to assume this responsibility accompanying the patient and their family through the dying process. Aim: To explore students’ and graduates’ perception of preparation to face a patient's death in a Chilean Medical school. Material and methods: An email was sent to 173 interns and 170 graduates from a Faculty of Medicine in which they were asked about their preparation to face patient’s death. Results: The survey was answered by 51 interns and 44 graduates and showed that 63% and 31% of them referred feeling inadequately prepared or unprepared to address a patient's death, respectively. Seventy one percent of graduates faced a patient's death during their first two years of profession. There was a significant association between feeling prepared to manage death and training to face such circumstance. Conclusions: These results and previous evidence support the need to train medical students to face death. An obligatory course on the subject is recommended.

Biografía del autor/a

Dominga Rodríguez Christian, Universidad del Desarrollo

Estudiante de Medicina

Pedro Lavín Ferrada, Universidad del Desarrollo

Estudiante de Medicina

Juan Pablo Beca Infante, Clínica Alemana

Médico Cirujano U. de Chile Especialista en Pediatría, Neonatología, U. de Chile Fundador del Centro de Bioética CAS UDD

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Publicado

2023-05-30

Cómo citar

Rodríguez Christian, D., Lavín Ferrada, P., & Beca Infante, J. P. (2023). Percepción de preparación de los internos y egresados de Medicina para enfrentar la muerte de un paciente. Revista Médica De Chile, 151(3). Recuperado a partir de https://revistamedicadechile.cl/index.php/rmedica/article/view/10305

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Educación Médica