Becoming and Being a Physician: A Developmental Journey [Paperback]

Preface
List of figures
List of tables
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Prologue: Rita Charon

Introduction: The Hidden Patient: An Incident that Changed my Professional Life

1. Developmental Theories: Stages, Transitions, and Liminality
2. Adult Learning and Continuous Medical Education: The Practice Years
3. Expertise, Clinical Reasoning, Deliberate Practice, and Phronesis
4. Moral and Character Development
5. Narrative, Storytelling, and Reflection: The Handling of Emotions
6. Developmental Issues, Remediation, and the Wounded Healer
7. Gender, Race, and Core Identities, Bias, Discrimination, and Mistreatment
8. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Doctors Life Cycle
9. Professional Identity Formation: Incorporating Professionalism and Care
10. Discussion

Epilogue: Ronald M. Epstein
Appendix
Index

Structured around personal stories, this book provides a rigorous review of current thinking and research on the physician life cycle. It considers the trajectories and factors that influence a doctors development over decades of a medical career.

What does I am a doctor mean currently? Structured around personal stories, this book provides a rigorous review of current thinking and research on the physician's life cycle. The book considers the trajectories and factors that influence a doctors development over decades of a medical career.

Taking an integrated approach, the authors consider the formal stages of a physicians training including medical school, residency training and practice and review discourses around professionalism, competency-based education, lifelong learning, expertise development, reflection, and narrative that merge into thel“F