Teaching Thanatology

Abstract

" 60 students were randomized in three groups. After “focus group sessions” with the participants, a validated attitude scale was applied to all. Group I continued with the regular program of the School of Medicine, without any interventions. Group II had seminar studies once every month for six months, each lasting 1.5 hours. Group III established a drama team under the direction of one of the researchers and made rehearsals with the aim of putting a play on the stage whose main theme is the relationships between the dying patients and their relatives. Six months later, the same attitude scale was applied once more in order to assess the difference between the efficacy of teaching methods. "