Download or read book The Modern Medical Student Manual written by Chris Lovejoy and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Modern Medical Student Manual, Chris Lovejoy presents a new and unique perspective on how medical students can succeed in the 21st century. He combines deep cross-discipline insights with his own personal experiences and those of students who have excelled in a wide range of domains; from coming top in Cambridge University medical exams to excelling in teaching and from winning essay prizes to combining Medicine with the arts at the highest level. With great succinctness and clarity, he lays out a roadmap for acing exams while studying less, finding a deeper level of enjoyment in work and setting yourself up to have a big positive impact on the medical field. In this far-reaching book, you will learn: Two powerful techniques for finding the optimum balance between work and play. The core science-backed learning principles for performing better while studying less. How to utilise techniques of world-class performers to excel in diagnostic skills. Four guiding principles for making the most of time spent on the wards. The best approach to scientific research as a student and a method for generating great research ideas. The challenges of communication in healthcare and how to prepare as a student. How to go from struggling to write essays to winning essay prizes. How to create a competitive medical CV through doing things you enjoy. Five techniques for pulling yourself out of a low mood when medicine or life gets you down. A step-by-step approach to take if you question whether medicine is really right for you. How to maximise the positive impact of your medical career and find a career path you love. Praise for The Modern Medical Student Manual: "Brilliant! Inspired me to make the most of my time in med school and has given me the tools to do so. The author's way of combining his own experiences as a med student with the ideas of lots of smart people to produce advice that's easy to implement in everyday life is super useful." - Eveliina Ilola, Medical Student, Kings College London "Great book, would highly recommend to others. Perfect for anyone thinking about or currently studying medicine." - Ali Abdaal, Founder of 6med "This book addresses so many aspects of the medical school journey, and had it been available back when I started, it would have been incredibly valuable. The book offers some very refreshing and innovative approaches to learning, but also some great tips on truly making the most of the professional experience, over and above excelling at the basic medical degree." - Vignesh Vetrivel, Cambridge Medical Graduate and Strategy Consultant

Download or read book Making the Modern Medical School written by Robert Oliver and published by Science History Publications/USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Public Health and the Risk Factor written by William G. Rothstein and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A risk factor is anything that increases the risk of disease in an individual.

Download or read book Time to Heal written by Kenneth M. Ludmerer M.D. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-11 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already the recipient of extraordinary critical acclaim, this magisterial book provides a landmark account of American medical education in the twentieth century, concluding with a call for the reformation of a system currently handicapped by managed care and by narrow, self-centered professional interests. Kenneth M. Ludmerer describes the evolution of American medical education from 1910, when a muck-raking report on medical diploma mills spurred the reform and expansion of medical schools, to the current era of managed care, when commercial interests once more have come to the fore, compromising the training of the nation's future doctors. Ludmerer portrays the experience of learning medicine from the perspective of students, house officers, faculty, administrators, and patients, and he traces the immense impact on academic medical centers of outside factors such as World War II, the National Institutes of Health, private medical insurance, and Medicare and Medicaid. Most notably, the book explores the very real threats to medical education in the current environment of managed care, viewing these developments not as a catastrophe but as a challenge to make many long overdue changes in medical education and medical practice. Panoramic in scope, meticulously researched, brilliantly argued, and engagingly written, Time to Heal is both a stunning work of scholarship and a courageous critique of modern medical education. The definitive book on the subject, it provides an indispensable framework for making informed choices about the future of medical education and health care in America.

Download or read book What I Learned in Medical School written by Kevin M. Takakuwa and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-01-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of vivid, first-person stories of medical students who don't "fit the mold" and have had challenges completing conventional medical training.

Download or read book The Master Adaptive Learner written by William Cutrer and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2019-09-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tomorrow’s best physicians will be those who continually learn, adjust, and innovate as new information and best practices evolve, reflecting adaptive expertise in response to practice challenges. As the first volume in the American Medical Association’s MedEd Innovation Series, The Master Adaptive Learner is an instructor-focused guide covering models for how to train and teach future clinicians who need to develop these adaptive skills and utilize them throughout their careers. Explains and clarifies the concept of a Master Adaptive Learner: a metacognitive approach to learning based on self-regulation that fosters the success and use of adaptive expertise in practice. Contains both theoretical and practical material for instructors and administrators, including guidance on how to implement a Master Adaptive Learner approach in today’s institutions. Gives instructors the tools needed to empower students to become efficient and successful adaptive learners. Helps medical faculty and instructors address gaps in physician training and prepare new doctors to practice effectively in 21st century healthcare systems. One of the American Medical Association Change MedEd initiatives and innovations, written and edited by members of the ACE (Accelerating Change in Medical Education) Consortium – a unique, innovative collaborative that allows for the sharing and dissemination of groundbreaking ideas and projects.

Download or read book New Pathways to Medical Education written by D. C. Tosteson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes efforts made at Harvard Medical School during the past to reorient general medical education. Harvard's New Pathway has received national attention since its inception--including a multipart special on PBS's Nova--because it offers a radical restructuring of the traditional medical school curriculum.

Download or read book Learning from the Wounded written by Shauna Devine and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science

Download or read book Educating Physicians written by Molly Cooke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EDUCATING PHYSICIANS The current blueprint for medical education in North America was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The basic features outlined by Flexner remain in place today. Yet with the past century's enormous societal changes, the practice of medicine and its scientific, pharmacological, and technological foundations have been transformed. Now medical education in the United States is at a crossroads: those who teach medical students and residents must choose whether to continue in the direction established over a hundred years ago or to take a fundamentally different course, guided by contemporary innovation and new understandings about how people learn. Emerging from an extensive study of physician education by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Educating Physicians calls for a major overhaul of the present approach to preparing doctors for their careers. The text addresses major issues for the future of the field and takes a comprehensive look at the most pressing concerns in physician education today. The key findings of the study recommend four goals for medical education: standardization of learning outcomes and individualization of the learning process; integration of formal knowledge and clinical experience; development of habits of inquiry and innovation; and focus on professional identity formation. Like The Carnegie Foundation's revolutionizing Flexner Report of 1910, Educating Physicians is destined to change the way administrators and faculty in medical schools and programs prepare their physicians for the future.

Download or read book I Wish I Read This Book Before Medical School written by Katherine Chretien and published by I Wish I Read...Series. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a physician is an amazing privilege, and it can be a deeply rewarding career...but first you have to get through medical school. Students, who were often at the top of their class prior to medical school, now find themselves surrounded by equally bright, hardworking, overachieving classmates and facing new challenges from rigorous curricula to specialty selection to navigation of unchartered territories of mentorship, clinical rotations, and research. Thriving in medical school requires more than smarts--it requires new learning strategies, organization, time management, teamwork skills, mentorship, adaptability, resilience, and more. This book brings together advice from medical educators, practicing physicians, and current medical students to help new medical students not just survive medical school but handle the transition with grace and position them to succeed and thrive.

Download or read book Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine written by Abigail Woods and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we think of as ‘human’ medicine was in fact deeply zoological. Each chapter analyses an important episode in which animals changed and were changed by medicine. Ranging across the animal inhabitants of Britain’s zoos, sick sheep on Scottish farms, unproductive livestock in developing countries, and the tapeworms of California and Beirut, they illuminate the multi-species dimensions of modern medicine and its rich historical connections with biology, zoology, agriculture and veterinary medicine. The modern movement for One Health – whose history is also analyzed – is therefore revealed as just the latest attempt to improve health by working across species and disciplines. This book will appeal to historians of animals, science and medicine, to those involved in the promotion and practice of One Health today.

Download or read book Medical Education in the United States and Canada written by Abraham Flexner and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark work which precipitated major reforms in medical education. It recommended closing commercial schools and reducing the overall number of medical schools from 155 to 31, with the aim of raising standards. Includes frank evaluative sketches of each school based on site visits by the author.

Download or read book The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Curriculum for the Twenty first Century written by Catherine D. De Angelis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-03-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our basic philosophy of medical education must be directed not toward creating a neurosurgeon, a family practitioner, a cardiologist, or a general pediatrician but toward creating an undifferentiated 'stem cell' physician who is so well prepared that he or she is fully capable of taking any career path after medical school. Every indication is that our goal is being met. The new curriculum is preparing students for the demands and responsibilities of a new era of medicine, science, and medical arts." -- from the Foreword, by Michael M. E. Johns, M.D. The curriculum taught in many U.S. medical schools today has been altered little since 1910. Now, spurred in part by the recent sweeping changes in health care delivery, medical schools are re-evaluating their curricula. The goal is to develop a program of medical education that not only reflects the latest scientific advances but also prepares physicians in the fields and specialties society now needs. This book provides an extensive description of the process and outcome of developing a completely new curriculum at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The book is organized around the subjects and courses taught: basic sciences, physician and society, medical informatics, and clinical medicine. Chapters also consider evaluation and reform of the curriculum. The contributors, Johns Hopkins faculty members who participated in developing the components of the curriculum, discuss differences between the old and new courses and programs, reasons for the changes, and the process used to plan and implement them. Throughout, the material is presented in a way that permits easy generalization and adaptation to other medical schools. Contributors: Catherine D. De Angelis, M.D. Diane M. Becker, Sc.D. Gert H. Brieger, M.D., Ph.D. Leon Gordis, M.D. H. Franklin Herlong, M.D. K. Joseph Hurt Michael M. E. Johns, M.D. Langford Kidd, M.D., F.R.C.P. Michael J. Klag, M.D. Harold P. Lehmann, M.D., Ph.D. Nancy Ryan Lowitt, M.D., Ed.M. Lucy A. Mead, Sc.M. Thomas D. Pollard, M.D. Henry M. Seidel, M.D. John H. Shatzer Jr., Ph.D. Patricia A. Thomas, M.D., F.A.C.P. Victor Velculescu Charles M. Wiener, M.D.

Download or read book Modern Medicine written by Sir William Osler and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How to Succeed at Medical School written by Dason Evans and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you adapt to the wide variety of learning environments in medicine? Can you show your best abilities in the exams at the same time as learning to be a doctor? Can you balance your studies with an enjoyable social life? Can you develop your professionalism and manage your 'digital footprint'? How to Succeed at Medical School will help you learn these vital skills, and much more. Written by experienced medical school teachers and packed full of case studies, illustrations, quotes from other students, tip boxes, exercises, portfolios and learning techniques to help you communicate, study and revise - it’s an essential resource to help you thrive at medical school. This thoroughly updated second edition includes new chapters on Professionalism and Teaching, and provides invaluable insight into what to expect from the start of medical school right through to the start of your medical career.

Download or read book The Social Transformation of American Medicine written by Paul Starr and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries. "The definitive social history of the medical profession in America....A monumental achievement."—H. Jack Geiger, M.D., New York Times Book Review

Download or read book The Art and Politics of Science written by Harold Varmus and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nobel Prize–winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions, and scientific adviser to President Obama reflects on his remarkable career. A PhD candidate in English literature at Harvard University, Harold Varmus discovered he was drawn instead to medicine and eventually found himself at the forefront of cancer research at the University of California, San Francisco. In this “timely memoir of a remarkable career” (American Scientist), Varmus considers a life’s work that thus far includes not only the groundbreaking research that won him a Nobel Prize but also six years as the director of the National Institutes of Health; his current position as the president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; and his important, continuing work as scientific adviser to President Obama. From this truly unique perspective, Varmus shares his experiences from the trenches of politicized battlegrounds ranging from budget fights to stem cell research, global health to science publishing.