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teaching palliative care pc important component medical education yet studies many countries document fragmented inconsistent approach pc teaching goal study assess pc education experience comfort levels providing endoflife care recently graduated medical students survey distributed medical student applicants residency programs large academic medical center united arab emirates descriptive statistics used tabulate variable frequencies 226 surveys 183 completed 807 response half respondents 104183 568 receive formal pc education training medical school general introduction pc 64 pain management 68 nonpain symptom management 56 common topics 13 24183 medical students participated pc rotations 25 participants 46183 reported assessment pc knowledge skills gender differences noted women comfortable discussing prognosis pearson chisquare value 867 df 3 p 0013 assessing decisionmaking capacity pearson chisquare value 1502 df 3 p 0005 students expressed comfort aspect pc majority respondents 174183 95 felt important receive pc education medical school newly graduated medical students reported limited education pc minimal clinical experience vast majority described lack comfort providing care dying patients families educational reform necessary embed pc knowledge skills medical school curricula