Medical Education for the Future: Identity, Power and Location

by Alan Bleakley, Julie Browne, John Bligh

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048196914
• ISBN13: 9789048196913
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"