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Let me heal : the opportunity to preserve excellence in American medicine / Kenneth M. Ludmerer.

By: Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]Description: xvii, 431 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199744541 (hbk. : acidfree paper)
  • 9780199744541 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.71/55 23
LOC classification:
  • R840 .L83 2015
NLM classification:
  • W 20
Contents:
Johns Hopkins and the creation of the residency -- The growth of graduate medical education -- The American residency -- The life of a pre-World War II House Officer -- Consolidating the system -- The expansion of the residency in an era of abundance -- The evolving learning environment -- The life of a post-World War II House Officer -- The weakening of the educational community -- The era of high throughput -- The era of accountability, patient safety, and work-hour regulation -- Preserving excellence in residency training and medical care.
Summary: This insightful, engaging the history of US graduate medical education explores the social and moral value of physician training to society as a whole and how improving excellence in GME can stimulate and guide meaningful health care reform.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-409) and index.

Johns Hopkins and the creation of the residency -- The growth of graduate medical education -- The American residency -- The life of a pre-World War II House Officer -- Consolidating the system -- The expansion of the residency in an era of abundance -- The evolving learning environment -- The life of a post-World War II House Officer -- The weakening of the educational community -- The era of high throughput -- The era of accountability, patient safety, and work-hour regulation -- Preserving excellence in residency training and medical care.

This insightful, engaging the history of US graduate medical education explores the social and moral value of physician training to society as a whole and how improving excellence in GME can stimulate and guide meaningful health care reform.

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