ISBN : 9780199370818
This book reimagines the education of medical students in its entire scope, from first year to graduation. The educational blueprint presented here rests on a new definition of sickness, one focused on impairments of function as the primary issue of concern for both patients and their care givers. This perspective avoids the common shift of medical attention from persons to diseases, and thus provides the basis for an authentic and robust patient-centered mindset.
Preface
Introduction
SECTION ONE Clinical Medicine
Chapter 1 Health, Illness and Disease
Chapter 2 Functioning
Chapter 3 The Goals of Physicians
Chapter 4 Person-centeredness
Chapter 5 The Doctor-Patient Relationship
Chapter 6 The 'Good Doctor'
SECTION TWO Teaching the Clinical Method
Chapter 7 The Clinical Method and Subjectivity in Medicine
Chapter 8 Medical Education: Highlights of the Past Two Centuries
Chapter 9 Competency-Based Education
Chapter 10 The Rise and Fall of Clinical Teaching
Chapter 11 Teaching a Clinical Method Adapted to Contemporary Medicine
SECTION THREE The Physicianship Curriculum
Chapter 12 Building on Past Experience
Chapter 13 Theory
Chapter 14 Educational Blueprint: Phases I to IV
Chapter 15 Phase I - The Person
Chapter 16 Phase II - Sick Persons
Chapter 17 Phases III and IV - Doctoring
Afterword
Epilogue by J. Donald Boudreau
Epilogue by Eric J. Cassell
Epilogue by Abraham Fuks
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Index