Full Description
What does "I am a doctor" mean currently? Structured around personal stories, this book provides a rigorous review of current thinking and research on the physician's life cycle. The book considers the trajectories and factors that influence a doctor's development over decades of a medical career.
Taking an integrated approach, the authors consider the formal stages of a physician's training including medical school, residency training and practice and review discourses around professionalism, competency-based education, lifelong learning, expertise development, reflection, and narrative that merge into the construct of medical professional identity formation.
Reflecting the dramatic changes that have occurred in the physician's role, job description, and reality of modern clinical practice, further compounded by the pandemic, this new book will support and encourage medical educators to ensure that the enduring values of the medical profession prevail.
Contents
Preface
List of figures
List of tables
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Prologue: Rita Charon
Introduction: The Hidden Patient: An Incident that Changed my Professional Life
1. Developmental Theories: Stages, Transitions, and Liminality
2. Adult Learning and Continuous Medical Education: The Practice Years
3. Expertise, Clinical Reasoning, Deliberate Practice, and Phronesis
4. Moral and Character Development
5. Narrative, Storytelling, and Reflection: The Handling of Emotions
6. Developmental Issues, Remediation, and the Wounded Healer
7. Gender, Race, and Core Identities, Bias, Discrimination, and Mistreatment
8. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Doctor's Life Cycle
9. Professional Identity Formation: Incorporating Professionalism and Care
10. Discussion
Epilogue: Ronald M. Epstein
Appendix
Index
