Person-Centered Kidney Education: The Path Forward

Person-centered health education and training

During the last decade, a series of new models have transformed our understanding of the concept of health and of the implementation of health care systems. Person-centered medicine (PCM) model is one of them (1). The International College of Person-Centered Medicine (ICPCM) promotes medicine of the person, for the person, by the person, and with the person. The ICPCM emerged from the ongoing a...

World Federation for Medical Education perspectives on person-centered medicine

Since 1984 the WFME has conducted an “International Programme for the Reorientation of Medical Education”. An important cornerstone in this process was the Edinburgh declaration of 1988 [1], adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1989 [2]. In order to promote the programme and in keeping with its constitutional mandate, the WFME Executive Council in 1998 in a position paper launched its Progra...

Zagreb Declaration on Person Centered Health Professional Education

We, participants in the First International Congress of Person centered Medicine and the Board of the International College of Person-Centered Medicine, call for action to promote person-centered health for all through transfor-mative educational concepts, programs and actions. Person Centered Medicine seeks to place the whole person in context at the center and as the goal of clinical practice...

Person-centered approaches 1 Person-centered Approaches to Personality

FROM THE THIRD GENEVA CONFERENCE ON PERSON-CENTERED MEDICINE: PERSON-CENTERED CLINICAL CARE ACTIVITIES Person-centered Therapeutics

A clinician’s effectiveness in treatment depends substantially on his or her attitude toward -and understanding of -the patient as a person endowed with self-awareness and the will to direct his or her own future. The assessment of personality in the therapeutic encounter is a crucial foundation for forming an effective working alliance with shared goals. Helping a person to reflect on their pe...