Educating the Medical Profession: Becoming Stress Resilient

Stress in the Medical Profession: An evaluation of Pre-medical students, Medical students, and Doctors

This study evaluates stress in individuals at three stages of the medical profession: the pre-medical level, the medical student level, and the level of the practicing physician. The evaluation is done using a physiological measurement the capnometer and a set of survey based psychological measurements. Specifically, the survey measures anxiety, depression, and the three aspects of burnout: emo...

Greed and the medical profession.

O rganised medicine is not giving proper attention to the disturbing presence in the profession of a universal human trait: greed. Perhaps doctors' greed is less of a problem in Britain where an estimated 70% of the doctors are generalists, and reimbursement in the main is controlled by the national health system. Not so in the United States where 70% of doctors are specialists and an open heal...

Violence against the medical profession

Homoeopathy and the medical profession

PHILLIP A. NICHOLLS, Homoeopathy and the medical profession, Beckenham, Croom Helm, 1988, 8vo, pp. 298, £27.50. There are several useful historical accounts of homoeopathy in America, but very little has been published on the British story. Nicholls's book will thus become a stock item for courses on medicine in nineteenthand twentieth-century Britain. After discussing the relation between the ...

Stress in the Medical Profession and its roots in Medical School.

A century after the Flexner Report on medical education in North America, which revolutionised the training of medical doctors all over the world, it is time to revisit this famous document and analyse symptoms and signs of a return to pre-Flexnerian conditions. With the ongoing mushroom growth over the last decades of small, proprietary educational institutions of low quality and driven by for...