Grief
Activity
PC Session
PC Session
Students will develop an understanding of grief and its diverse forms. Critically examine and reflect on attitudes and beliefs about grief. Develop an appreciation of sociocultural influences on the experience of grief, including grief in the context of COVID-19. Challenge Western concepts of grief and consider cultural variation in the expression and management of grief.
Develop an understanding of how to respond to grieving patients.
Curriculum Block
Part 5 / Professional Competencies IF / Week 3
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Activity Objectives
- To critically examine and reflect on one's attitudes and beliefs about grief and loss.
- To examine some of the larger held cultural myths held about grief and loss.
- To identify and incorporate respectful and compassionate behaviors for those who are bereaved in everyday contexts and professional practice.
- To appreciate the challenges faced by those who are grieving in a culture that is widely death-denying.
General Objectives
- Demonstrate sensitivity to the value system of patients (colleagues, other health care providers – ethical vs professionalism) and others.
- Illustrate how diverse factors (sociocultural, psychological, economic, occupational, environmental, legal, political, spiritual, and technological) interact to influence the health of an individual and the population.
- Illustrate the difference between disease and illness, and plan an approach to understanding the patient’s illness experience.
Assessments
PC Final Student Assessment
PC Interim Student Assessment
PC Integrative Exercise
Tags
Curriculum Block
Part 5
Professional Competencies IF
Week 3
Curriculum Week
IF
Week 3
McMaster Professional Competency
Social, Cultural and Humanistic Dimensions of Health
McMaster Program Competencies
1.1 Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their health through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests.
2.1 Demonstrate an understanding of what knowledge is, the strengths and limitations of different ways of knowing, and how knowledge is created in historical, cultural and social contexts.
2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care.
4.1 Communicate effectively with patients, families, and the public, as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and sociocultural backgrounds
4.4 Demonstrate insight and understanding about emotions and human responses to emotions that allow one to develop and manage interpersonal interactions, including the ability to manage one’s own interpersonal responses
5.5 Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to a diverse patient population, including all dimensions of diversity such as those that are included in human rights legislation and federal and provincial law.
8.3 Develop the ability to use self-awareness of knowledge, skills, and emotional limitation to seek help appropriately
8.4 Demonstrate awareness and acceptance of different points of view
MeSH
Bereavement [F01.470.142]
Death [C23.550.260]
Grief [F01.470.142.110]
Professional Competency
Yes
