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1 online resource (323 pages) |
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Jossey-Bass/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |
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Jossey-Bass/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
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| Contents |
Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency; Contents; Foreword: On the Shoulders of Flexner; Introduction; The Study Behind the Book; Toward a Vision for the Future of Medical Education; The Plan of the Book; Using This Book; Part One: Today's Practice, Yesterday's Legacy, Tomorrow's Challenges; Chapter 1: EDUCATING PHYSICIANS: CONTEXT AND CHALLENGES; Chapter 2: BEING A DOCTOR: FOUNDATIONS OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION; Part Two: Learning the Physician's Work; Chapter 3: THE STUDENT'S EXPERIENCE: UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION |
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Chapter 4: THE RESIDENT'S EXPERIENCE: GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATIONPart Three: External Pressures and Internal Forces for Change; Chapter 5: REGULATING AND FINANCING MEDICAL EDUCATION; Chapter 6: LEADERSHIP FOR ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; Part Four: Meeting Tomorrow's Challenges: A Vision of the Possible; Chapter 7: REALIZING THE VISION: TRANSFORMING MEDICAL EDUCATION; Chapter 8: SUPPORTING EXCELLENCE THROUGH EFFECTIVE POLICY; References; Name Index; Subject Inde |
| Summary |
Praise for Educating Physicians. "Educating Physicians provides a masterful analysis of undergraduate and graduate medical education in the United States today. It represents a major educational document, based firmly on educational psychology, learning theory, empirical studies, and careful personal observations of many individual programs. It also recognizes the importance of financing, regulation, and institutional culture on the learning environment, which suffuses its recommendations for reform with cogency and power. Most important, like Abraham Flexner's classic study a century ago |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Medical education -- United States
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Residents (Medicine) -- United States
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Medical education
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Residents (Medicine)
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Irby, David M
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O'Brien, Bridget C
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| ISBN |
9780470617632 |
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0470617632 |
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128268468X |
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9781282684683 |
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