Full Description
This book will provide anyone with an interest in the clinic with a basic guide on those things that are not taught during medical school or any other pre-clinical trainings. The line-up of authors was carefully assembled to include experts in all respective fields to give this volume the authority it requires to be a relevant text for many.
Contents
Succeeding in your consultant interview.- Clinical leadership and engagement: No longer an optional extra.- The art of negotiation, handling difficult behaviour, and facing the media.- Handling complaints, meetings, and presentations.- Performance appraisal and assessment.- Quality improvement.- Risk management.- Root cause analysis.- Occupational health and safety.- Coping with stress.- The nature of conflict in health-care.- Evidence based management.- Clinical handovers.- The educational role of senior hospital staff.- Mentoring.- Expert or impostor- understanding the role of the expert witness.- How to dress at work.- Managing ethically complex issues in critically ill patients - a neonatal perspective.- Communicating bad news in the health care organization.- Managing grief and its consequences at the workplace.
