The Inner World of Medical Students: Listening to Their Voices in Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781857757521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 304 str.

Johanna Shapiro

Opis

This is a practical and comprehensive guide to communication in family medicine for doctors nurses and staff in the primary healthcare team. It brings together all facets of communication in healthcare including involvement of patients staff and external workers. It shows how to address all aspects of communication in relation to one-to-one situations teaching and groups and encourages the reader to reflect on their own clinical and work experience. Using think boxes exercises and references this is an accessible guide relevant to all members of the practice team.

Spis treści

Medical Education as a Rite of Passage. Functions of writing for medical students. Why Study Medical Student Poetry? Living Anatomy: The Experience of Cadaver Dissection. Am I a doctor Yet? Becoming a Physician. It’s not only what’s in your brain, it’s what’s in your heart: becoming a physician part II. Oh Doctor, doctor, what can I do? You are my patient…let us take flight! If they don’t care, why should I? Student-patient relationships II. Tickling the conscience: the intersection of medicine and social justice. I am afraid as I ponder that inevitable end: death and dying. Is this the way of life? Reflections on love and life. Strangers in a strange land: what matters to medical students on their journey and how they tell about it. Postscript: writing rings around death.

O autorze

Johanna Shapiro