Health Humanities in Postgraduate Medical Education

ISBN-13: 9780190849900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 360 str.

Allan D. Peterkin; Anna Skorzewska

Recenzje

I found this book very thoughtfully compiled and I recommend it for health professions' educators with an interest in the medical humanities. They will certainly benefit from the collated wisdom contained within its pages.

O autorze

Allan Peterkin is a Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Toronto, where he heads the Program in Health, Arts and Humanities and serves as Humanities Faculty Lead for undergraduate medical education and post-MD studies. He is the author of 14 books for adults and children, including Staying Human During Residency Training-How To Survive and Thrive After Medical School. Anna Skorzewska is a psychiatrist and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. She runs a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit and teaches extensively in both postgraduate and continuing professional development. She has an interest in the use of the arts and humanities in clinical practice and in medical education. She started a film program for psychiatric inpatients in collaboration with the Toronto International Film Festival. She has been the executive producer of a documentary film portrait of a psychiatric inpatient ward that was part of the official selection of The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.