Could Staying Human in Medical Training Help Make Medicine Humane? Review of Allan D. Peterkin, Staying Human During Residency Training

Authors

  • Fabián Ballesteros Programmes de bioéthique, Département de médecine préventive, École de santé publique de l’Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Keywords:

residency, medical training, wellbeing, medical education, medical ethics

Language(s):

English

Abstract

In Staying Human During Residency Training. How to survive and Thrive after Medical School, Dr. Allan D. Peterkin provides guidance and tools to medical residents, with a common thread the wellbeing of the person in each resident, essential to staying humane during the demanding training called residency. This review focuses on ethics, as presented in the author’s discourse, in a chapter specifically dealing with clinical ethics.

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Published

2013-10-26

Issue

Vol. 2 (2013)

Section

Reviews

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Copyright (c) 2013 Fabián Ballesteros

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