B, Dow boldt and D. Tamlyn TABLE 1 Curriculum approaches to death education(n= 65) Medicine Canada ntegrated throughout curriculum 16 lective courses 33 United Kingdom ntegrated throughout curriculum lective courses 2217 11 Required worksho Curriculu a broach Death education content was included in all of the respondin g Canadian nursing programs and 96% of the U.K. nursing pro grams. All of the Canadian medical programs and 89% of the medical programs in the United Kingdom that responded eported including death and dying content in their curricula The frequ ency with which death education was addressed by inte grating it throughout the curriculu m and/or using elective or rkshops is described in Table 1. Nursing programs reported allocating a greater number of hours for both lassroom teaching and clinical practice than medical programs TABLE 2 Average number of hours for death education Nursing Medicine Count Canada 50 6.60 5.50 United Kingdom C= Classroom instruction; CP= Clinical practice.Findings C u r ric u lu m A ppro a c h De ath e d u c atio n co n te n t was in c lu d e d in all o f th e re sp o n d in g Can ad ian n u rsin g p ro g ram s an d 96% o f th e U.K. n u rsin g p ro - g r am s. All o f th e Can ad ian m e d ic al p ro g ram s an d 89% o f th e m e d ic al p ro g r am s in th e Un ite d Kin g d o m th a t re sp o n d e d r e p o rte d in c lu d in g d e ath an d d yin g co n te n t in th e ir cu rricu la. Th e frequ e n cy with wh ich de ath e du cation was add re sse d by in te- g r atin g it th ro u g h o u t th e cu rricu lu m an d / o r u sin g e le c tive o r re q u ire d co u rs e s o r wo rk sh o p s is d e sc rib e d in Table 1. Nu rsin g p ro g ram s re po rted allo catin g a g reate r n um be r o f h ou rs fo r both c lassro o m te ach in g an d c lin ical p ractice th an m e d ical p ro g ram s ( Table 2) . 180 B . D o w n e-W am bold t a n d D . Ta m lyn