PDF-[EBOOK] - Med School Rx: Getting In, Getting Through, and Getting On with Doctoring

This is the essential reference for the complete medical school experience by a professional medical educator who wants students of the future to set a new standard for 21st century doctoring After reading Med School Rx prospective students will understand what the admissions committees professors examiners and educators that stand between them and an MD are looking for what they expect of them as future physicians and how they can get the most out of the programs they offerMed School Rx also demystifies the intense learning curve of medical science and national board exams Students are paying enormous tuition not just for more education but for powerful career training This book explains how students can mold their medical school education into myriad possibilities and do not have to follow the traditional path. From the tabloid magazines to the fashion industry mainstream media outlets political campaigns and the photo hoaxes that land in our email inboxes doctored photographs are appearing with a growing frequency and so phistication The truth is however From the tabloid magazine to the fashion industry to mainstream media outlets to political campaigns to the photo hoaxes that land in our email inboxes doctored photographs are appearing with a growing frequency and sophistication The truth is howev taught throughout the first year of medical school is an integrated series of lectures small group discussions simulated patient encounters and clinical correlation exercises T he course provides instruction in fundamental clinical skills takin And at the same time our under standing of the technological ethical and legal implications is lagging behind How is this technology affecting our society and how do we contend with the implications Hany Farid describes the impact of digital tamperi To improve students clinical skills Adult learning theory predicts that clinical knowledge and skills are enhanced when students are asked to teach what they know To assist the MS2s in the transition into clinical medicine To assist the MS2 class in PT Clinical Education & The Internship Experience Current Status: PT Education - Real Issues  Too many schools, not too few  Medical education=~ 100 programs  PT schools= 200+ s BMS 6015 Summer 2013 Doctoring 101 The Florida State University College of Medicine BMS 6015 Page 1 of 12 Return to Table of Contents Table of Contents Instructors ............................... Teaching Clinical Reasoning In The Apprenticeship Model . Nothing. My Thanks. Dennis Baker. Greg Turner. Lynn Romrell. Goals. Stimulate discussion of clinical reasoning in the context of curriculum redesign. Wachter 20 Part 12." Baseball Prospectus, 05 Jun 2006. Web. 11 Dec 2011. Birnbaum, Phil. "The Value of an MLB Draft Choice." Sabermetric Research, 12 Nov 2007. Web. 11 Dec 2011. Wang, Class of 2020. August 2017. Gerald H. Sterling, PhD. Senior Associate Dean for Education. ghsterli@temple.edu. David J. Karras, MD. Associate Dean, Pre-. C. lerkship Education. david.karras@temple.edu. 7-time Wall Street Journal and Audible Top-10 best selling author. National bestseller Medicine Men follows the beloved #1 bestselling Heart in the Right Place. This is a collection of the most memorable moments from more than a dozen rural physicians who each practiced medicine for more than 50 years in the Southern Appalachian Mountains from 1930-2012. Hilarious, heroic, true stories of miracle cures, ghost dogs, and much madcap medical mayhem. Unimaginably funny and touching situations where men with nerves of steel and hearts of gold get stuck between a rock and a hard place in the Smoky Mountains. These men are saints who walk among us and Jourdan\'s father is one of them. Jourdan\'s work is often compared to James Herriot and Bill Bryson. This story collection is like All Creatures Great and Small but with people instead of animals or vingnettes from country doctors who took A Walk in the Woods.Jourdan\'s first book is on hundreds of lists of best books of the year, best book club books, and funniest books. Heart in the Right Place was chosen as Family Circle magazine\'s first ever Book of the Month, won the Elle magazine Reader\'s Prize, named a Wall Street Journal Nonfiction Bestseller and ranked #1 on Amazon in Biography, Memoir, Science, and Medicine. American medicine attracts some of the brightest and most motivated people the country has to offer, and it boasts the most advanced medical technology in the world, a wondrous parade of machines and techniques such as PET scans, MRI, angioplasty, endoscopy, bypasses, organ transplants, and much more besides. And yet, writes Dr. Eric Cassell, what started out early in the century as the exciting conquest of disease, has evolved into an overly expensive, over technologized, uncaring medicine, poorly suited to the health care needs of a society marked by an aging population and a predominance of chronic diseases. In Doctoring: The Nature of Primary Care Medicine, Dr. Cassell shows convincingly how much better fitted advanced concepts of primary care medicine are to America\'s health care needs. He offers valuable insights into how primary care physicians can be better trained to meet the needs of their patients, both well and sick, and to keep these patients as the focus of their practice. Modern medical training arose at a time when medical science was in ascendancy, Cassell notes. Thus the ideals of science--objectivity, rationality--became the ideals of medicine, and disease--the target of most medical research--became the logical focus of medical practice. When clinicians treat a patient with pneumonia, they are apt to be thinking about pneumonia in general--which is how they learn about the disease--rather than this person\'s pneumonia. This objective, rational approach has its value, but when it dominates a physician\'s approach to medicine, it can create problems. For instance, treating chronic disease--such as rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, stroke, emphysema, and congestive heart failure--is not simply a matter of medical knowledge, for it demands a great deal of effort by the patients themselves: they have to keep their doctor appointments, take their medication, do their exercises, stop smoking. The patient thus has a profound effect on the course of the disease, and so for a physician to succeed, he or she must also be familiar with the patient\'s motivations, values, concerns, and relationship with the doctor. Many doctors eventually figure out how to put the patient at the center of their practice, but they should learn to do this at the training level, not haphazardly over time. To that end, the training of primary care physicians must recognize a distinction between doctoring itself and the medical science on which it is based, and should try to produce doctors who rely on both their scientific and subjective assessments of their patients\' overall needs. There must be a return to careful observational and physical examination skills and finely tuned history taking and communication skills. Cassell also advocates the need to teach the behavior of both sick and well persons, evaluation of data from clinical epidemiology, decision making skills, and preventive medicine, as well as actively teaching how to make technology the servant rather than the master, and offers practical tips for instruction both in the classroom and in practice. Most important, Doctoring argues convincingly that primary care medicine should become a central focus of America\'s health care system, not merely a cost-saving measure as envisioned by managed care organizations. Indeed, Cassell shows that the primary care physician can fulfill a unique role in the medical community, and a vital role in society in general. He shows that primary care medicine is not a retreat from scientific medicine, but the natural next step for medicine to take in the coming century.  “People come to us for help. They come for health and strength.” With these simple words David Mendel begins Proper Doctoring, a book about what it means (and takes) to be a good doctor, and for that reason very much a book for patients as well as doctors—which is to say a book for everyone. In crisp, clear prose, he introduces readers to the craft of medicine and shows how to practice it. Discussing matters ranging from the most basic—how doctors should dress and how they should speak to patients—to the taking of medical histories, the etiquette of examinations, and the difficulties of diagnosis, Mendel moves on to consider how the doctor can best serve patients who suffer from prolonged illness or face death. Throughout he keeps in sight the fundamental moral fact that the relationship between doctor and patient is a human one before it is a professional one. As he writes with characteristic concision, “The trained and experienced doctor puts himself, or his nearest and dearest, in the patient’s position, and asks himself what he would do if he were advising himself or his family. No other advice is acceptable no other is justifiable.”Proper Doctoring is a book that is admirably direct, as well as wise, witty, deeply humane, and, frankly, indispensable. Billions of people have been deceived, damaged, deprived of health, robbed of their possessions and murdered over the last 300 years, by means of so-called health care. The process is intensifying and is reaching a crescendo in the late nineties of this century. This brutal activity takes place under the guise of “health care” or medical treatment. The participants in this macabre scene consist of many stakeholders, including somewhat unwitting, normally willing, and innocent patients on the receiving end. Dispensing this mayhem is an unholy grouping of professions, groups, academics, big business, government and the media. Once medical science is investigated in detail, one discovers that very little in the healing industry has evolved by chance, but that powerful influences have, and are, orchestrating the developments worldwide. Disease and illness have accompanied humans since the earliest history recorded in the Old Testament.1 In the first case of recorded healing, Abraham prayed to God for the healing of Abimelech, his wife, and his maidservants, and they were healed. Health was and still is also regarded as a blessing by believers and others. We know two factual characteristics of humans, namely that they are created as mortal 2, as well as self-healing creatures – meaning that it is known from Scripture that humans are destined to die physically it is also known from observation and experience that most injuries will heal spontaneously, without treatment intervention. In order to fully understand the bigger picture of the medical puzzle, one requires a working knowledge of medicine, healing, disease, history, science, politics, economics, worldly traditions, and most of all, Scripture. The author has studied these subjects for more than 30 years. It was only in 1993 however, that he, by the grace of God, became saved as a born-again Christian. Piece by piece the puzzle became clear to the author. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, he devoted most of his free time to collate the necessary information for this book. The project has consumed 5 years of devoted work. Only a person who has been a scholar of God’s grand plan, as described in Scripture, can possibly comprehend the proper context of these worldly events. Having had personal experience of the Gestapo tactics practiced by the medical authorities, the author feels compelled to share his understanding and knowledge of the grave status quo, with fellow humans.