Qualitative Study of Preclinical Medical Student Reflections on Required Palliative Care Experience.

Introduction: Medical schools are increasingly incorporating palliative care (PC) experiences to promote knowledge about patient-centered care and improve primary PC skills of future physicians; however, best practices for doing so remain underdeveloped. As part of a longitudinal four-year medical school curriculum, all preclinical second-year medical students spend one half-day embedded in a PC team in an academic hospital or in a home setting.

Objectives: To evaluate written reflections of preclinical medical students for themes and experience impact following a PC experience with an interdisciplinary clinical team.

Advance directive screening among veterans with incident heart failure: Comparisons among people aging with and without HIV.

Background: Heart failure (HF) is common among people aging with HIV (PWH) and without HIV (PWoH). Despite the poor prognosis for HF, advance directives (AD) completion is low but has not been compared among PWH and PWoH.

Objectives: Determine the prevalence and predictors of AD screening among PWH and PWoH with incident HF.

Quality of Telehealth-Delivered Inpatient Palliative Care During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic.

Context: Consequent to increasing COVID-19 infection rates, the Palliative Care (PC) service at a large New England hospital shifted from in-person to telehealth-delivered PC (TPC).

Objectives: We compared the quality of TPC to in-person PC during the early COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: We conducted an electronic health record review of PC consultations of patients hospitalized during three periods: pre-COVID January, 2020-February, 2020 (in-person); peak-COVID March, 2020-June, 2020 (majority TPC); and post-peak September, 2020-October, 2020 (majority in-person).

Sociocultural Barriers Related to Late-Stage Presentation of Breast Cancer in Morocco.

Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer affecting women globally and in Morocco, where more than one fourth of patients are diagnosed at advanced stages. This study aimed to investigate sociocultural barriers that contribute to delayed presentation and diagnosis of breast cancer among women in Marrakesh, Morocco. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 25 breast cancer patients who received care at the CHU Mohammed VI Hospital in Marrakesh to elicit barriers to diagnosis and treatment and ease of access to care.