Medical students' knowledge and feeling about end-of-life decisions: A national French survey

Affiliations

¹ Department of anaesthesiology and intensive care unit, Necker Enfants Malades hospital - AP-HP, Pierre et Marie Curie university, 75005 Paris, France.
² Mobile unit of palliative care, Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital - AP-HP, Pierre et Marie Curie University, 75013 Paris, France.
³ Department of anaesthesiology and intensive care unit, Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital - AP-HP, Pierre et Marie Curie university, 75013 Paris, France.
⁴ Department of anaesthesiology, Foch hospital, university of Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, 92150 Suresnes, France. Electronic address: m.leguen@hopital-foch.org.

R Jouffroy et al. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2018 Dec.

. 2018 Dec;37(6):635-636.

doi: 10.1016/j.accpm.2018.08.001. Epub 2018 Sep 27.

¹ Department of anaesthesiology and intensive care unit, Necker Enfants Malades hospital - AP-HP, Pierre et Marie Curie university, 75005 Paris, France.
² Mobile unit of palliative care, Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital - AP-HP, Pierre et Marie Curie University, 75013 Paris, France.
³ Department of anaesthesiology and intensive care unit, Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital - AP-HP, Pierre et Marie Curie university, 75013 Paris, France.
⁴ Department of anaesthesiology, Foch hospital, university of Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, 92150 Suresnes, France. Electronic address: m.leguen@hopital-foch.org.

No abstract available

Keywords: End-of-life decision; Ethical thought; Medical student; Psychological impact; Teaching; Withdrawing and withholding.

Comment in

The deliberate clinical inertia, a source of professional satisfaction for the end-of-life decision-makers?
Nicolas-Robin A. Nicolas-Robin A. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2018 Dec;37(6):531-532. doi: 10.1016/j.accpm.2018.10.007. Epub 2018 Oct 19. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2018. PMID: 30347251 No abstract available.