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Clinical Clerkships
The Heart of Professional Development
- Peter O. Ways - Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, USA
- John D. Engel - Northeastern Ohio University - College of Medicine, Northeastern Ohio Universities, USA, Independent Consultant, Bangalore, India
- Peter Finkelstein
216 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
A medical student's clinical clekship is characterized among other things by long hours, insufficient sleep, daily frustrations, and emotional burdens. It will also be not only a defining professional experience, but a rewarding life experience. Clinical Clerkships takes the third or fourth year student through the unstated curriculum of the clerkship to address those difficulties not often discussed by deans, educators, practitioners, professors, or lab assistants. Through practical discussion and germane vignettes, the authors not only describe the difficult issues involved in clerkship, they also provide solutions and stimulate discussion.
PART ONE: PREPARATION AND EXPECTATIONS: THE LAY OF THE LAND
Clerkships and the Physician Ideal
Expectation versus Reality
Faculty 1
Faculty 2
The Discipline of Patient Care
Getting Ready (to begin)
PART TWO: THE WORK AND CHALLENGES OF CLERKSHIPS: THE JOURNEY ITSELF
Honoring the Patient
Communication
The Patient Appraisal
Rounds and Teamwork
Working with the Family
Evaluations
PART THREE: MAJOR ISSUES IN THE IMPLICIT CURRICULUM
Exhaustion and etc
Death Is the Enemy
Loss of Intellectual Vitality
Emotional Unresponsiveness and 'Hardening of the Heart'
PART FOUR: EXITING THE CLINICAL YEARS AS A WHOLE AND WELL PERSON
Self-Care I
Self-Care II
Spirituality
