Edward J Eckenfels

Doctors Serving People

Restoring Humanism to Medicine Through Student Community Service

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Produktbeschreibung

While a professor at Rush Medical College in Chicago, Edward J. Eckenfels helped initiate and direct a student-driven program in which student doctors worked in the poor, urban communities during medical school, voluntarily and without academic credit. In addition to their core curriculum and clinical rotations, students served the social and health needs of disadvantaged populations. Its story provides a working model of how to reform medical education in America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9780813543161
• ISBN-10: 0813543169
• Artikelnr.: 23439696

Autorenporträt

Edward J. Eckenfels is a professor emeritus in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Rush University Medical Center.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Joseph F. O’ Donnell, MD
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Humanism in the Time of Technocracy
Chapter 1 The Emergence of the Rush Community Service
Initiatives Program
Chapter 2 Clinics Serving the Poor and Homeless
Chapter 3 The New Faces of AIDS
Chapter 4 Community-Based Grassroots Programs
Chapter 5 The Community Today, Tomorrow the World
Chapter 6 Looking for Meaning
Chapter 7 Empirical Estimates of Patients and Clients Served
Chapter 8 The Learning and Development of the Students
Chapter 9 Nurturing Idealism, Advancing Humanism,
and Planning Reform
Chapter 10 A Personal Reflection: The Staying Power of the
Call of Service
Appendix A Sources of Funding for RCSIP
Appendix B Guidelines for Maintaining Safety and Security
Appendix C Publications and Presentations of RCSIP Participants
Appendix D The Social Medicine, Community Health, and
Human Rights Curriculum
Notes
Bibliography
Index