Development of a teaching module for quality-of-life assessment of terminal patients. The AACE Multi-Institutional Palliative Cancer Education Section. American Association for Cancer Education.

To enhance the teaching of students to assess quality of life of patients with serious disease, the AACE Palliative Cancer Education Section has developed a teaching module. The module, which focuses on four desired learning objectives, is to be used in an hour-long small-group session. The authors describe the development of the module, as well as its objectives, teaching method, evaluation, and future challenges.