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Master the skills you need to succeed in the classroom and as a health care professional Filled with tips and strategies, Career Development for Health Professionals, 4th Edition provides the skills required to achieve four important goals: 1) complete your educational program, 2) think like a health care professional, 3) find the right jobs, and 4) attain long-term career success. This edition includes a new chapter on professionalism and online activities challenging you to apply what you've learned. Written by respected educator Lee Haroun, this practical resource...

Nagasaki during the Tokugawa (1603-1868) was truly Japan's window on the world with its Chinese residences and Deshima island, where Western foreigners, including representatives of the Dutch East India Company, were confined. In 1785 Otsuki Gentaku (1757-1827) journeyed from the capital to Nagasaki to meet Dutch physicians and the Japanese who acted as their interpreters. Gentaku was himself a physician, but he was also a Dutch studies (rangaku) scholar who passionately believed that European science and medicine were critical to Japan's progress. Network of Knowledge examines the...

Through the twentieth century, the nature of medical practice has changed more quickly, more dramatically, and far more publicly than that of any other profession in Canada. In this study Bernard Blishen identifies the social and political pressures on the medical profession and assesses how it has responded to them.

Among the changes doctors have confronted are third-party pressures from government and hospital bureaucracies, greater public knowledge, improved technology, recognition of patients' rights, and legal challenges. Blishen discusses how the doctors achieved dominance in...

Everyone wants clinicians to adopt digital health, but how?

Digital health influencer Jared Johnson asked that question to guests on the Health IT Marketer Podcast and was amazed by their responses.

Health care professionals are facing so many new challenges in today's landscape of shifting business models, regulations and patient experience initiatives, it can be easy to ignore the innovation that is happening in digital health.

In this easy-to-read compilation, Jared shares conversations with 20 health care technology thought leaders who describe how to...

Adapted from the successful interactive audio-visual e-course, The Lunchtime Physician Entrepreneur is a crash course for like-minded physicians who want to make a smooth transition into running their own private practices. After accepting a lower-paying position with a Federally Qualified Health Center in order to give back to her community through the practice of medicine, Dr. Shanicka Scarbrough quickly realized that her time was stretched thin by overcrowded waiting rooms, piles of paperwork, and a mother with early onset dementia. Rather than abandon the profession and the...