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Doctors Serving People

Restoring Humanism to Medicine Through Student Community Service

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Today's physicians are medical scientists, drilled in the basics of physiology, anatomy, genetics, and chemistry. They learn how to crunch data, interpret scans, and see the human form as a set of separate organs and systems in some stage of disease. Missing from their training is a holistic portrait of the patient as a person and as a member of a community. Yet a humanistic passion and desire to help people often are the attributes that compel a student toward a career in medicine. So what happens along the way to tarnish that idealism? Can a new approach to medical education make a difference?Doctors Serving People is just such a prescriptive. While a professor at Rush Medical College in Chicago, Edward J. Eckenfels helped initiate and direct a student-driven program in which student doctors worked in the poor, urban communities during medical school, voluntarily and without academic credit. In addition to their core curriculum and clinical rotations, students served the social and health needs of diverse and disadvantaged populations. Now more than ten years old, the program serves as an example for other medical schools throughout the country. Its story provides a working model of how to reform medical education in America.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-08-01
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Issues in Health and Medicine
Antal sidor240
FörlagRutgers University Press
MedarbetareJoseph O'Donnell
ISBN9780813543161

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Foreword by Joseph F. O’ Donnell, MDAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Humanism in the Time of TechnocracyChapter 1 The Emergence of the Rush Community ServiceInitiatives ProgramChapter 2 Clinics Serving the Poor and HomelessChapter 3 The New Faces of AIDSChapter 4 Community-Based Grassroots ProgramsChapter 5 The Community Today, Tomorrow the WorldChapter 6 Looking for MeaningChapter 7 Empirical Estimates of Patients and Clients ServedChapter 8 The Learning and Development of the StudentsChapter 9 Nurturing Idealism, Advancing Humanism,and Planning ReformChapter 10 A Personal Reflection: The Staying Power of theCall of ServiceAppendix A Sources of Funding for RCSIPAppendix B Guidelines for Maintaining Safety and SecurityAppendix C Publications and Presentations of RCSIP ParticipantsAppendix D The Social Medicine, Community Health, andHuman Rights CurriculumNotesBibliographyIndex

"Eckenfels hears with crystal clarity the drumbeats that are pleading for more soulful, caring physicians. His book represents a valuable approach to recenter American medical education on the principles of commitment and passion." - John Swartzberg (University of California, Berkeley) "A story of vision, courage, and grassroots activism in the city of Chicago. Eckenfels' project provides a working model of how to reform medical education in the United States."(Journal of the American Medical Association)