Summary
Contents
Subject index
A medical student's clinical clekship is characterized among other things by long hours, insufficient sleep, daily frustrations, and emotional burdens. It will 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.
The Discipline of Patient Care
The Discipline of Patient Care
We regard discipline as a consistent set of behaviors, based on personal choices, that furthers our lives in a useful and usually gratifying way. It may be modeled by a parent or mentor. Commonly, the rewards are not immediately apparent. The word discipline comes from the Latin discipolus, which freely translates to “learn.”
As a third-year clerk on internal medicine, Ways and 10 other students met weekly with a venerable professor for 2½ hours to review one student's history and physical exam. Dr. Atchley was kind, forceful, and detailed in his approach, and although he engaged everyone, the class often felt totally bored. But after 12 sessions, they were all very advanced in the skills of history ...
- Loading...