BookJ. Donald Boudreau, Eric J. Cassell, Abraham Fuks.
Summary: This book re imagines 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.
Contents:
Health, illness and disease
Functioning
The goals of physicians
Person-centeredness
The doctor-patient relationship
The "good doctor"
The clinical method and subjectivity in medicine
Medical education : highlights of the past two centuries
Competency-based education
The rise and fall of clinical teaching
Teaching a clinical method adapted to contemporary medicine
Building on past experience
Theory
Educational blueprint: phases I to IV
Phase I: the person
Phase II: sick persons
Phases III and IV: doctoring.