Archive: Hunter Groninger
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“A Pilot Study to Understand the Role of Medical Humanities in Medical Education”
Clark Pitcher, Arya Prasad, Daniel Marchalik, Hunter Groninger, Lakshmi Krishnan and Michael Pottash study the perception of the students enrolled in the Georgetown University Medical Humanities Initiative of the benefits of a medical humanities curriculum.
Categories: Announcements, Scholarship
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“How to Address Sexuality and Intimacy with People Living with a Serious Illness”, Dr. Hunter Groninger and Anne Kelemen Write for the Center to Advance Palliative Care
Dr. Hunter Groninger and Anne Kelemen address an area that is often overlooked in a routine palliative care assessment: the impact of serious illness on intimacy and sexuality
Category: Media
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“Now We Can All Hear You…”, Dr. Hunter Groninger Writes about Palliative Care Tele-Education for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis on PallCHASE
Dr. Hunter Groninger describes his experience of pivoting from traditional in-person teaching to the virtual world, in the context of his teaching of primary palliative care skills to local clinicians providing humanitarian medical aid to the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
Category: Media
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“Palliative Care Consultation and Effect on Length of Stay in a Tertiary-Level Neurological Intensive Care Unit”
The team of researchers that includes Dr. Michael Pottash and Dr. Hunter Groninger investigated the characteristics and impact of palliative care consultation for patients in a neurological intensive care unit (ICU) at a large tertiary-care hospital.
Category: Scholarship
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“The Impact of Non-Medical Reading on Clinician Burnout: A National Survey of Palliative Care Providers”
The team of researchers that includes Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Dr. Hunter Groninger studies the impact of non-medical reading on burnout in hospice and palliative care physicians. They suggest that reading non-medical literature on a consistent basis may be associated with a significantly decreased likelihood of burnout.
Category: Scholarship
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Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Dr. Hunter Groninger on Beyond Burnout–The Healing Power of Fiction
On February 6 2019, Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Dr. Hunter Groninger spoke at the University of Virginia’s Medical Center Hour about emerging research on books’ benefits for doctors and trace their own experience with the Literature and Medicine Track at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Category: Past events
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“When We Document End-of-Life Care, Words Still Matter”
Dr. Hunter Groninger and Anne M. Kelemen highlight the findings of the study “Language Used by Health Care Professionals to Describe Dying at an Acute Care Hospital”, and how providers’ discomfort in employing clear, direct terms when talking about dying can have unintended consequences, such as miscommunication, and missed or delayed opportunities to engage in the grieving process.
Category: Scholarship
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“Ambiguity in End-of-Life Care Terminology—What Do We Mean by ‘Comfort Care?'”
Dr. Hunter Groninger and Anne M. Kelemen explore the ambiguity in the terminology associated with end-of-life care, highlighting the need to talk about what “comfort care” or “comfort measures” actually mean.
Category: Scholarship
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“Failing Better: A New Paradigm of Care”
Dr. Hunter Groninger introduces a Heart Failure Reviews symposium issue that aims to call attention to the rapidly developing interface between heart failure and palliative care.
Category: Scholarship
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“Integrating Spiritual Care into Palliative Consultation: A Case Study in Expanded Practice”
Dr. Hunter Groninger and his co-authors describe the role of a palliative care chaplain embedded within the interdisciplinary palliative care team, demonstrating how the role of this palliative chaplain differs from that of a traditional hospital chaplain.
Category: Scholarship