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 doctors bring about lasting change that will restore the patient to the heart of medical education? The authors, experienced medical educators, explore the role of the patient in medical education in terms of identity, power and location. Using invative political, philosophical, cultural and literary critical frameworks that have previously never been applied so consistently to the field, the authors provide a fundamental reconceptualisation of medical teaching and learning, with an emphasis upon learning at the bedside and in the clinic. They offer a wealth of practical and conceptual insights into the three-way relationship between patients, students and teachers, setting out a radical and exciting approach to a medical education for the future. The authors provide us with a masterful reconceptualization of medical education that challenges traditional tions about teaching and learning. The book critiques current practices and offers new approaches to medical education based upon sociocultural research and theory. This thought provoking narrative advances the case for reform and is a must read for anyone involved in medical education. - David M. Irby, PhD, Vice Dean for Education, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine; and co-author of Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency This book is a truly visionary contribution to the Flexner centenary. It is compulsory reading for the medical educationalist with a serious concern for the future - and for the welfare of patients and learners in the here and w. Professor Tim Dornan, University of Manchester Medical School and Maastricht University Graduate School of Health Professions Education.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer
ISBN-10
9400735189
ISBN-13
9789400735187
eBay Product ID (ePID)
158312144
Product Key Features
Author
John Bligh, Julie Browne, Alan Bleakley
Format
Trade Paperback (US), Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Medicine: General
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Weight
474g
Height
234mm
Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Dordrecht
Spine
16mm
Series Part/Volume Number
1
Series Title
Advances in Medical Education
Content Note
1 Black & White Tables, Biography
Date of Publication
19/04/2013
Genre
Medicine: General
Country of Publication
Netherlands
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