Staying Human During Residency Training, Fourth Edition: How to Survive and Thrive after Medical School - Softcover

Peterkin, Allan D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802096271 ISBN 13: 9780802096272

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2008

Synopsis

Known as an invaluable resource by thousands of doctors across North America, Staying Human during Residency Training is a concise manual designed for medical students, interns, residents and fellows in all areas of specialization. Covering every aspect of a resident's life from choosing a residency program, to coping with stress, enhancing self-care, and protecting personal and professional relationships, this fourth edition updates important material with new references, resources, and websites.

Containing an expanded section on learning and teaching, this new edition also has an increased emphasis on balance, personal values and professionalism. With the same vitality of previous editions, Dr. Allan D. Peterkin provides hundreds of practical tips on coping with sleep deprivation, time pressures, and other issues of concern for hospital residents, while also discussing ethical and legal matters, issues pertinent to women, parents, as well as international, and minority students. Offering advice on how to deepen relationships with colleagues, friends, and family, and to foster more empathic connection with patients, he also offers practical antidotes to cynicism, careerism, and burnout.

Informative, compassionate, and professional, this new edition will again show why Staying Human during Residency Training is a veritable bible for medical students and new physicians pursuing postgraduate training.

About this title

About the Author:

Allan D. Peterkin is a practising psychiatrist and an associate professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine at the University of Toronto, where he also heads the Health, Arts, and Humanities Program www.health-humanities.com

Review:

"'Chock full of all kinds of information that is pertinent, if not essential, to residents, including innumerable survival tips and suggestions. Dr. Peterkin has written a penetrating and far-ranging, yet humane, perspective and has not lost sight of the "person within," so common in academic medical centres of today. This book will go a long way toward alleviating much of the worry and demoralization in contemporary residents, their partner or spouse. A copy should be stuffed into the pocket of every resident physician.' Michael Myers, M.D., Author of Doctor's Marriages: A Look at Problems and their Solutions"

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0802096271
• ISBN 13: 9780802096272
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 200