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H American Board of Internal Medicine Clinical Competence in End-of-Life Care*
Components
Core Competencies
Medical Knowledge
Palliative care
• Assessment and treatment of psychological distress
• Pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment of pain and other symptoms
Interviewing/Counseling skills
Listening
Truth telling
Giving bad news
Discussing dying as a process
Dealing with families of dying patients
Team Approach
Understanding multidisciplinary natures of end-of-life care (physician, nursing staff, social services, palliative care or hospice team, pharmacist, chaplain, patient, patient's family, patient advocate)
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American Board of Internal Medicine, Caring for the Dying: Identification and Promotion of Physician Competency. Philadelphia, Author, 1996, p. 41. Used with permission.
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Symptom Assessment and Management
Communication skills
Comfort
Use of opioids, sedatives, or adjuvant analgesics, NSAIDs
Control of dyspnea
AHCPR and WHO guidelines
Professionalism
Altruism
Accountability
Confidentiality
Transference and counter transference
Nonabandonment
Honoring patients' wishes
Respect for colleagues
Humanistic Qualities
Integrity
Compassion
Sensitivity to patient needs for comfort and dignity
Respect
Courtesy
Medical Ethics
Advance directives, DNR/DNI orders,
Conflicts of interest
Futility
Physician-assisted suicide
Nutrition/hydration
Surrogate decisionmaking
Double effect
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