The purpose of medical education is to benefit patients by improving the work of doctors. Patient centeredness is a centuries old concept in medicine, but there is still a long way to go before medical education can truly be said to be patient centered. Ensuring the centrality of the patient is a particular challenge during medical education, when students are still forming an identity as trainee doctors, and conservative attitudes towards medicine and education are common amongst medical teachers, making it hard to bring about improvements. How can teachers, policy makers, researchers and...

This book promotes an underutilized way to leverage the power of personal image to create competitive edge(TM). It connects professional women with couture-level home-sewers who make signature wardrobes. It asks readers to take an honest look at what they're currently settling for - most likely a mediocre wardrobe - and question how that is or is not supporting their success. The theme throughout the book is to consider lost opportunity costs, and turn these around by tending to first impressions with precision and urgency. It proposes that readers value their wardrobe differently, and dare...

A Practical Approach to Alternative Dispute Resolution provides a comprehensive commentary on all of the major areas of ADR. Its practical focus highlights the key processes and procedures for each topic, making this book ideally suited to students and practitioners embarking on ADR for the first time.