TY - JOUR AU - Nordström, Anna AU - Fjellman-Wiklund, Anncristine AU - Grysell, Tomas PY - 2011 DA - 2011/09/28 TI - Drama as a pedagogical tool for practicing death notification-experiences from Swedish medical students JO - BMC Medical Education SP - 74 VL - 11 IS - 1 AB - One of the toughest tasks in any profession is the deliverance of death notification. Marathon Death is an exercise conducted during the fourth year of medical school in northern Sweden to prepare students for this responsibility. The exercise is designed to enable students to gain insight into the emotional and formal procedure of delivering death notifications. The exercise is inspired by Augusto Boal's work around Forum Theatre and is analyzed using video playback. The aim of the study was to explore reflections, attitudes and ideas toward training in delivering death notifications among medical students who participate in the Marathon Death exercise based on forum play. SN - 1472-6920 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-11-74 DO - 10.1186/1472-6920-11-74 ID - Nordström2011 ER -