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Toward creating physician-healers: fostering medical students' self-awareness, personal growth, and well-being
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Toward creating physician-healers: fostering medical students' self-awareness, personal growth, and well-being

D H Novack, R M Epstein and R H Paulsen
Academic medicine, v 74(5), pp 516-520
May 1999
PMID: 10353283
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https://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-199905000-00017View
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Abstract

Education, Medical - standards Physician-Patient Relations Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Students, Medical - psychology Awareness Humans
To restore the "humanism" in medical care, medical education needs to espouse the goal of creating physician-healers. Critical, and often neglected, factors in healing are the personal development and well-being of the healer. Unexamined attitudes and biases and personal stress can interfere with patient care. Personal awareness and well-being can contribute to physicians' using their emotional reactions to patients for their patients' benefit. The authors suggest goals and objectives for medical education that can promote trainees' self-awareness, personal growth, and well-being, and comment on how medical educators might achieve and evaluate these goals and objectives.

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