Medical Education: Narrative Matters
by Health Affairs
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Description
Stories about what is and isn’t occurring in medical schools, from Narrative Matters, a section of first-person essays in the policy journal Health Affairs.
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Teeb Al-Samarrai - "Adrift In Africa: A US Medical Resident On An Elective Abroad" Full Essay | Virtually on her own and unsupervised in a Ugandan hospital, a young doctor develops suggestions for improving overseas medical training. (March 2011) | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Abraham Verghese - "A Touch Of Sense" Full Essay | Patients and physicians connect through touch and trust. (July/August 2009) | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fitzhugh Mullan - "Me And The System: The Personal Essay And Health Policy" Abridged Version | Writing is an invitation to change things, to battle mortality, and to connect the little picture with the big. (July/August 1999) | 4/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fitzhugh Mullan - "Me And The System: The Personal Essay And Health Policy" Full Essay | Writing is an invitation to change things, to battle mortality, and to connect the little picture with the big. (July/August 1999) | 4/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Melinda Morton - "Buying Lunch...And What Else?" Abridged Version | A medical student who believes that free lunches and free drug samples provided by the pharmaceutical industry are far from free finds her “no-free-lunch” resolve being tested. (March/April 2009) | 9/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Melinda Morton - "Buying Lunch...And What Else?" Full Essay | A medical student who believes that free lunches and free drug samples provided by the pharmaceutical industry are far from free finds her “no-free-lunch” resolve being tested. (March/April 2009) | 9/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Janet R. Gilsdorf - "The Disappearing Doctors" Abridged Version | Reduced residents’ work hours sound fine until the residents—now a legion of shift-worker physicians—are rushing out the door or aren’t there. (May/June 2008) | 9/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Janet R. Gilsdorf - "The Disappearing Doctors" Full Essay | Reduced residents’ work hours sound fine until the residents—now a legion of shift-worker physicians—are rushing out the door or aren’t there. (May/June 2008) | 9/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elizabeth Gaufberg - "Time To Care" Abridged Version | When thinking about duty-hour reform and other aspects of residency training, remember that patient care depends on the soul of the doctor. (May/June 2008) | 9/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elizabeth Gaufberg - "Time To Care" Full Essay | When thinking about duty-hour reform and other aspects of residency training, remember that patient care depends on the soul of the doctor. (May/June 2008) | 9/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jack Coulehan - "Innocence Abroad" Abridged Version | Sometimes immersion in a different culture isn’t fully understood until long afterward. (May/June 2006) | 9/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jack Coulehan - "Innocence Abroad" Full Essay | Sometimes immersion in a different culture isn’t fully understood until long afterward. (May/June 2006) | 9/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daniel J. Derksen - "Dolores" Full Essay | A young resident takes her own life, shining a harsh light on the pressures of the current residency education system. (September/October 2002) | 9/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daniel J. Derksen - "Dolores" Abridged Version | A young resident takes her own life, shining a harsh light on the pressures of the current residency education system. (September/October 2002) | 9/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Jung - "No Free Lunch" Full Essay | A young doctor's take on why residents' souls should matter more than their stomachs. (March/April 2002) | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Jung - "No Free Lunch" Abridged Version | A young doctor's take on why residents' souls should matter more than their stomachs. (March/April 2002) | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 16 Episodes |
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