Helping Patients Die: Implementation of a Residency Curriculum in Medical Aid in Dying

1R. Spielvogel is core faculty, Department of Family Medicine, Sutter Family Medicine Residency Program, Sacramento, California; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0154-5956.

2S. Schewe was a resident physician, Department of Family Medicine, Sutter Family Medicine Residency Program, Sacramento, California, at the time of writing and is now a staff physician, El Dorado Community Health Centers, Placerville, California.

Correspondence should be addressed to Ryan Spielvogel, Department of Family Medicine, Sutter Family Medicine Residency Program, 1201 Alhambra Blvd, Ste 300, Sacramento, CA 95816; telephone: (916) 813-2954; email: [email protected].

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Acknowledgments: The authors wish to thank the residents at the Sutter Family Medicine Residency Program for their hard work and determination. The authors also wish to thank Stephanie Linn, the End of Life Option Act coordinator for Sutter Health, for her tireless dedication to patient care. The authors also acknowledge Dr Evan Pulvers, whose innovative work on aid-in-dying residency curricula at the Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency directly led to the development of Sutter’s curriculum.

Funding/Support: None reported.

Other disclosures: None reported.

Ethical approval: This study was deemed to be exempt from review by the Sutter Health Institutional Review Board.

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