BookAlan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne.
Summary: "The purpose of medical education is to benefit patients by improving the work of doctors. Patient centeredness is a centuries old concept in medicine, but there is still a long way to go before medical education can truly be said to be patient centered. Ensuring the centrality of the patient is a particular challenge during medical education, when students are still forming an identity as trainee doctors, and conservative attitudes towards medicine and education are common amongst medical teachers, making it hard to bring about improvements. How can teachers, policy makers, researchers and doctors bring about lasting change that will restore the patient to the heart of medical education? The authors, experienced medical educators, explore the role of the patient in medical education in terms of identity, power and location. Using innovative political, philosophical, cultural and literary critical frameworks that have previously never been applied so consistently to the field, the authors provide a fundamental reconceptualisation of medical teaching and learning, with an emphasis upon learning at the bedside and in the clinic. They offer a wealth of practical and conceptual insights into the three-way relationship between patients, students and teachers, setting out a radical and exciting approach to a medical education for the future." --Publisher description.
Contents:
Part 1 Medical Education
A Democratising Force for Medicine
Medical Education as Patient
Beyond Practical Reasoning
Learning from Learning Theory
Socio-Cultural Learning Theories
Part 2 Identity, Power and Location in Medical Education
Producing Doctors
New Forms of Identity in a Runaway World of Medicine
The Medical Educator and the Clinical Teacher
Identity Construction of the Medical Educator Through Learning and Writing
Power in Medical Education
Place Matters: Location in Medical Education
Learning by Simulation and the Simulation of Learning
Global Medical Education
A Post Colonial Dilemma
Part 3 Medical Education Research A Democratising Force for Medical Education
Lets Get Real: Medical Students Learning from, with and About Patients
Texts, Authoring and Reading in Medical Education
Lack, Trajectories and Ruptures in Medical Education Research
A Framework for Medical Education Research: Cultures, Contexts and Concepts
Part 4 A Medical Education for the Future
Identities, Powers and Locations: What Does the Future Hold for Medical Education
From Pedagogy to Policy: A Regulatory Framework for Medical Education.