ReviewThe American journal of hospice & palliative care2025
Medical Students' Experience of a Patient's Death and Their Coping Strategies: A Narrative Literature Review.
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- Transforming nursing students' attitudes toward death through the "caring for life in death" program: a quasi-experimental, longitudinal, mixed-methods study.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- Death Literacy and End-of-Life Preparedness Among Health Professions Students: A Mixed-Methods Study.Cureus · 2026Article
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- Supporting Health Care Professions Learners Experiencing Grief Using the TEARS Framework: A Workshop for Interprofessional Educators.MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources · 2026Article
- Preparing Medical Students for Patient Death: A Pilot Curriculum at Texas A&M College of Medicine.Journal of patient experience · 2026Article
- Mental health and professional identity formation amongst medical students in Singapore: a qualitative study.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Investigating the effects of a short narratology module on empathy and patient-centred communication in early-stage medical students: an empirical mixed-methods pilot study.BMC medical education · 2025Observational
- The dynamic association between depression, psychological flexibility, and meaning in life among medical students: a cross-lagged analysis.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The impact of digital stress on suicide ideation among medical postgraduates: the chain mediating role of emotion regulation and meaning in life.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Cross-Cultural Differences in Fear of Death, Emotional Intelligence, Coping with Death, and Burnout Among Nursing Students: A Comparative Study Between Spain and Portugal.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The relationship between patient deaths in hospital wards and medical students' emotional distress: evidence from two newly established medical schools in Zimbabwe.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Approach to death and dying patients and its relation with death anxiety among medical interns: a multicenter cross-sectional study.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Objectification, Desensitization, and Personification: Medical Student Strategies for Engaging with Donor Bodies in the Anatomy Lab.Journal of medical education and curricular developmentArticle
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Abstract
The experience of a patient's death on medical students is powerful and may entail distress and anxiety. We review the experience of death and dying as perceived by medical students. Students are exposed to death and dying while dissecting cadavers in pre-clinical years, following patient death in clinical years, and commonly as a result of personal exposure. Students report sadness and anger in response to patient death, particularly following their first experience. The patient's identity and the student's past exposure to death were found to influence the way students experience death and dying. Coping methods may include conversation, reflection, and religion as well as detachment and avoidance. Although time and resources are invested in preparing students for a patient's death, many of them feel inadequately prepared. Greater understanding of and investment in processing medical students' experience of patient death may be helpful in their personal and professional development.
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