RT Book, Section
A1 Slavin, Stuart
A2 Schwartz, Rachel
A2 Hall, Judith A.
A2 Osterberg, Lars G.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182527312
T1 Changing Medical Education to Support Emotional Wellness
T2 Emotion in the Clinical Encounter
YR 2021
FD 2021
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260464320
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182527312
RD 2024/04/18
AB For  clinicians  to  deal  effectively  with  emotions—their  patients’  and  their  own—it  is  critically  important  to  preserve  student  and  trainee  wellness  across  the  education  continuum.  Unfortunately,  substantial  evidence  exists  that,  at  least  for  physicians,  this  goal  is  not  being  met.  This  chapter  will  focus  on  the  educational  path  for  doctors-in-training,  but  many  of  the  problems  and  challenges  found  in  medical  school  and  residency  also  likely  exist  in  the  educational  paths  for  nurses  and  allied  health  professionals.  In  describing  the  problems,  challenges,  and  potential  solutions  in  this  chapter,  evidence  will  be  drawn  when  possible  from  the  medical  education  literature.  When  evidence  is  not  available,  I  will  base  my  assertions  drawn  from  experience  over  the  past  several  years  of  my  career  in  which  I  have  been  invited  to  and  visited  more  than  25  academic  medical  centers.  The  primary  purpose  of  these  visits  was  to  give  talks  and  workshops,  but  they  allowed  me,  in  committee  meetings,  in  one-on-one  conversations,  at  lunches  and  dinners,  to  hear  from  countless  medical  students,  residents,  and  faculty  about  the  challenges  they  faced  in  their  professional  and  personal  lives.  Those  conversations,  and  those  that  preceded  them  when  I  was  Associate  Dean  for  Curriculum  at  Saint  Louis  University  School  of  Medicine,  have  informed  and  guided  my  work  and  I  am  immensely  grateful  to  those  who  have  shared  so  openly  with  me.