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 doctor’s development over decades of a medical career.
Taking an integrated approach, the authors consider the formal stages of a physician’s 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 the construct of medical professional identity formation.
Reflecting the dramatic changes that have occurred in the physician’s role, job description, and reality of modern clinical practice, further compounded by the pandemic, this new book will support and encourage medical educators to ensure that the enduring values of the medical profession prevail.
By:
Shmuel P. Reis (Holon Institute of Technology Israel),
Adina L. Kalet (Medical College of Wisconsin,
WI,
USA),
W. Wayne Weston (University of Western Ontario,
Canada)
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9781032830551
ISBN 10: 1032830557
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 13 April 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
College/higher education
,
Undergraduate
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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 Doctor’s Life Cycle 9. Professional Identity Formation: Incorporating Professionalism and Care 10. Discussion Epilogue: Ronald M. Epstein Appendix Index
Shmuel P. Reis, MD, MHPE, is a family physician and Professor of Medical Education at the Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, and the Center for Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University/Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel. Adina L. Kalet, MD, MPH, is a general internist and Professor of Medicine and Medical Education at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA. W. Wayne Weston, MD, CCFP, FCFP, is Emeritus Professor of Family Medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University in Ontario, Canada.
Reviews for Becoming and Being a Physician: A Developmental Journey
“Don’t read this book unless you are poised for transformation. While providing a comprehensive review of decades of academic research and scholarship on adult learning, Becoming and Being a Physician gifts its reader with moments of instantaneous clarity.” - Rita Charon MD PhD ”This book is an important step in providing a philosophical and moral framework for developing those to whom all of us will entrust our lives.” - Ron Epstein MD ""Years ago, the book, Changing and Learning in the Lives of Physicians (Fox, Mazmanian & Putnam; Prager Press, 1989) offered a career path, and opened the door to profound reflection and redirection. It literally changed my life. Nearly four decades later, Becoming and Being a Physician offers the same gift - a masterful, inspiring and richly-referenced book, crafted from the personal journeys of three physician educators. Both emotionally moving and scientifically-based, this is a must-read for anyone interested in lifelong learning and professional development. It might change their lives, too."" - Dave Davis MD