Table 1.

Pre- and postintervention Likert-scale survey questionnaire

Question Number		Precurriculum Mean Score	Postcurriculum Mean Score	P Value
1*	I feel comfortable discussing code status with a new (previously unknown) patient on admission when they are calm.	4.22	4.68	0.027
2	I feel comfortable discussing code status with a new (previously unknown) patient on admission when they are anxious.	3.36	4.22	0.002
3	I feel confident readdressing goals-of-care and code status with patients when their health situation changes.	3.95	4.22	0.016
4	I feel confident discussing goals-of-care with emotional patients.	3.36	3.90	0.060
5	I understand what a Health Care Proxy (HCP) form is.	4.00	4.72	0.001
6*	I feel comfortable filling out and filing a Health Care Proxy (HCP) form with a patient.	3.59	4.45	0.005
7	I understand what a MOLST form is.	3.72	4.68	0.002
8*	I feel comfortable filling out and filing a MOLST form with a patient.	3.36	4.40	0.002
9	I feel confident in my abilities to explain different life sustaining measures, like CPR, dialysis, feeding tubes, artificial hydration, and ventilation, to patients and their families.	4.00	4.36	0.090
10	I feel well prepared to deliver serious news, like a new diagnosis of cancer or life-threatening progression of CHF, to a patient.	3.27	4.22	0.008
11*	It is my responsibility to have the initial serious illness conversation with a patient.	4.13	4.31	0.038
12	I feel confident in my abilities to respond to patients’ and families’ emotions during advance care planning conversations.	3.77	4.04	0.034
13	I feel comfortable identifying which patients have needs for palliative care services.	3.77	4.13	0.022

Definition of abbreviations: CHF = congestive heart failure; CPR = cardiopulmonary resuscitation; MOLST = Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment.

^*Questions were selected a priori for analysis.