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Table 5 Curriculum part A - Geriatrics

From: Palliative care for the elderly - developing a curriculum for nursing and medical students

Learning Goal (recommended reading)

Learning Objective

Educational Strategy

Learning Domain

Multimorbidity

[6, 7, 21]

-Student knows about the challenge of prognosis in the elderly

Teacher-based instruction

Cognitive

 

-Student knows about negative effects of hospitalisation

Case-based learning

 

Geriatric Assessment

[6, 21]

-Student knows about the challenge of symptom control in the elderly

Teacher-based instruction

Cognitive

 

-student is familiar with standard tools of geriatric assessment, especially visual pain assessment tools

Case-based learning

 

Burden of old age

[25]

-Student knows and accepts the impairment in life quality caused by seemingly "trifle" diseases

Teacher-based instruction

Role Play

Cognitive

Affective