Professionalism in Medicine: A Case-Based Guide for Medical Students - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521879329 ISBN 13: 9780521879323

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Learning medical professionalism is a challenging, evolving, and life-long endeavor. Professionalism in Medicine: A Case-Based Guide for Medical Students helps begin this process by engaging students and their teachers in reflection on cases that resonate with the experiences of life in medicine. Through the book's seventy-two cases, commentaries, videos, and literature-based reviews, students explore the many challenging areas of medical professionalism. Readers will appreciate the provocative professionalism dilemmas encountered by students from the pre-clinical years and clinical rotations and by physicians of various specialties. Each case is followed by two commentaries by writers who are involved in health care decisions related to that case, and who represent a wide variety of perspectives. Authors represent 46 medical schools and other institutions and include physicians, medical students, medical ethicists, lawyers, psychologists, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, health care administrators, and patient advocates.

About this title

Book Description:

This book helps the instruction of professionalism by engaging medical students and faculty in cases that resonate with real-life experiences. Each of the seventy-two cases is followed by two commentaries written by physicians, medical students, and/or contributors from various health care disciplines that discuss dilemmas encountered by students from all years of medical school, and by physicians of various specialties.

About the Author:

John Spandorfer, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Medicine, an Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at Jefferson Medical College and a Fellow in the American College of Physicians.

Charles A. Pohl, M.D., is a Professor of Pediatrics, an Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Jefferson Medical College and a Fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Susan L. Rattner, M.D., is a Professor of Medicine and Family and Community Medicine, a Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs/UME at Jefferson Medical College and a Fellow in the American College of Physicians.

Thomas J. Nasca, M.D., is a Professor of Medicine and Master in the American College of Physicians.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521879329
• ISBN 13: 9780521879323
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 482
• Editor: John Spandorfer, Charles A. Pohl, Susan L. Rattner, Thomas J. Nasca