Journal article
Calibrating the physician. Personal awareness and effective patient care. Working Group on Promoting Physician Personal Awareness, American Academy on Physician and Patient
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, v 278(6), pp 502-509
13 Aug 1997
PMID: 9256226
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Abstract
Physicians' personal characteristics, their past experiences, values, attitudes, and biases can have important effects on communication with patients; being aware of these characteristics can enhance communication. Because medical training and continuing education programs rarely undertake an organized approach to promoting personal awareness, we propose a "curriculum" of 4 core topics for reflection and discussion. The topics are physicians' beliefs and attitudes, physicians' feelings and emotional responses in patient care, challenging clinical situations, and physician self-care. We present examples of organized activities that can promote physician personal awareness such as support groups, Balint groups, and discussions of meaningful experiences in medicine. Experience with these activities suggests that through enhancing personal awareness physicians can improve their clinical care and increase satisfaction with work, relationships, and themselves.
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- Title
- Calibrating the physician. Personal awareness and effective patient care. Working Group on Promoting Physician Personal Awareness, American Academy on Physician and Patient
- Creators
- D H Novack - Division of Medical Education, MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa 19129, USAA L SuchmanW ClarkR M EpsteinE NajbergC Kaplan
- Publication Details
- JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, v 278(6), pp 502-509
- Publisher
- American Medical Association; United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- MD (Doctor of Medicine) Program
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1997XP24300033
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0030800262
- Other Identifier
- 991014878384004721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Medicine, General & Internal