Experiencing dying and death is an inevitable part of being a medical professional. This poses an extraordinary emotional challenge, especially for the doctors at the early stages of their careers. Emotionally stressful events have an impact on modeling the values und behaviors of medical professionals and eventually on the quality of patient care. In this dissertation, a qualitative approach was used to investigate which experiences with dying and death are described as formative by young medical professionals as well as the characteristics which give these events their special status.
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Experiencing dying and death is an inevitable part of being a medical professional. This poses an extraordinary emotional challenge, especially for the doctors at the early stages of their careers. Emotionally stressful events have an impact on modeling the values und behaviors of medical professionals and eventually on the quality of patient care. In this dissertation, a qualitative approach was used to investigate which experiences with dying and death are described as formative by young medic...
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