Educating for Professionalism: Creating a Culture of Humanism in Medical Education

The 13 essays in this volume examine the often conflicting ethical, social, emotional, and intellectual messages that medical institutions send to students about what it means to be a doctor. Because this disconnection between what medical educators profess and what students experience is partly to blame for the current crisis in medical professionalism, the authors offer timely, reflective analyses of the work and opportunities facing medical education.

Delese Wear teaches at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. She is author of Privilege in the Medical Academy: A Feminist Examines Gender, Race, and Power and Professionalism in Medicine: Critical Perspectives, and was the editor Journal of Medical Humanities from 1994 to 2007. Following 25 years in positions of  increasing national leadership at the Association of American Medical Colleges, Janet Bickel started her own business as a career and leadership development coach and consultant. She is also an adjunct assistant professor of medical education at George Washington University School of Medicine and a member of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine [ELAM] Consultation Alliance.