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Medical education for the future: Identity, power and location

Bleakley, Alan, Bligh, John and Brice Browne, Julie 2011. Medical education for the future: Identity, power and location. Advances in Medical Education, vol. 1. London: Springer. 10.1007/978-90-481-9692-0

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Abstract

The purpose of medical education is to benefit patients by improving the work of doctors. Patient centeredness is a centuries old concept in medicine, but there is still a long way to go before medical education can truly be said to be patient centered. Ensuring the centrality of the patient is a particular challenge during medical education, when students are still forming an identity as trainee doctors, and conservative attitudes towards medicine and education are common amongst medical teachers, making it hard to bring about improvements. How can teachers, policy makers, researchers and doctors bring about lasting change that will restore the patient to the heart of medical education? The authors, experienced medical educators, explore the role of the patient in medical education in terms of identity, power and location. Using innovative political, philosophical, cultural and literary critical frameworks that have previously never been applied so consistently to the field, the authors provide a fundamental reconceptualisation of medical teaching and learning, with an emphasis upon learning at the bedside and in the clinic. They offer a wealth of practical and conceptual insights into the three-way relationship between patients, students and teachers, setting out a radical and exciting approach to a medical education for the future.

Item Type: Book
Book Type: Authored Book
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education
Medicine
Subjects: L Education > LB Theory and practice of education
R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Education, scientific disciplines
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789048196913
Last Modified: 14 Oct 2021 10:25
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198

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