Year: 2017
Resolution Number: 58
Action Taken: Approved
Status: Complete
Author(s): Kevin Cates, Michael Chavarria, Rohan Kedar, David Lee, and William Rasmussen
Sponsor: John Winterholler
On behalf of: Medical Student Section
Committee: E (Science and Education Affairs)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS adopt American Medical Association policy, H-85.956, on educating physicians about advance care planning:"Our AMA: (1) will continue efforts to better educate physicians in the skills necessary to increase the prevalence and quality of meaningful advance care planning, including the use of advance directives, and to improve recognition of and adherence to a patient's advance care decisions; (2) supports development of materials to educate physicians about the requirements and implications of the Patient Self-Determination Act, and supports the development of materials (including, but not necessarily limited to, fact sheets and/or brochures) which physicians can use to educate their patients about advance directives and requirements of the Patient Self-Determination Act; (3) encourages residency training programs, regardless of or in addition to current specialty specific ACGME requirements, to promote and develop a high level of knowledge of and ethical standards for the use of such documents as living wills, durable powers of attorney for health care, and ordering DNR status, which should include medical, legal, and ethical principles guiding such physician decisions. This knowledge should include aspects of medical case management in which decisions are made to limit the duration and intensity of treatment; (4) will work with medical schools, graduate medical education programs and other interested groups to increase the awareness and the creation of personal advance directives for all medical students and physicians; and (5) encourages development of a model educational module for the teaching of advance directives and advance care planning"; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS supports the teaching of advance directive planning as a clinical skill through simulation and skills practice in addition to established didactic modalities.
RESOLVED: That MSMS adopt American Medical Association policy, H-85.956, on educating physicians about advance care planning:"Our AMA: (1) will continue efforts to better educate physicians in the skills necessary to increase the prevalence and quality of meaningful advance care planning, including the use of advance directives, and to improve recognition of and adherence to a patient's advance care decisions; (2) supports development of materials to educate physicians about the requirements and implications of the Patient Self-Determination Act, and supports the development of materials (including, but not necessarily limited to, fact sheets and/or brochures) which physicians can use to educate their patients about advance directives and requirements of the Patient Self-Determination Act; (3) encourages residency training programs, regardless of or in addition to current specialty specific ACGME requirements, to promote and develop a high level of knowledge of and ethical standards for the use of such documents as living wills, durable powers of attorney for health care, and ordering DNR status, which should include medical, legal, and ethical principles guiding such physician decisions. This knowledge should include aspects of medical case management in which decisions are made to limit the duration and intensity of treatment; (4) will work with medical schools, graduate medical education programs and other interested groups to increase the awareness and the creation of personal advance directives for all medical students and physicians; and (5) encourages development of a model educational module for the teaching of advance directives and advance care planning"; and be it further RESOLVED: That MSMS supports the teaching of advance directive planning as a clinical skill through simulation and skills practice in addition to established didactic modalities.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Advance Directive Planning Education for Medical Students
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