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The Yale guide to careers in medicine & the health professions : pathways to medicine in the twenty-first century / edited by Robert Donaldson, Jr., Kathleen S. Lundgren, Howard M. Spiro.

Holman Biotech Commons R690 .Y35 2003
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Donaldson, Robert, 1927-
Lundgren, Kathleen S., 1952-
Spiro, Howard M. (Howard Marget), 1924-2012.
Series:
Yale ISPS series
The Yale ISPS series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Medicine--Vocational guidance.
Medicine.
Medical personnel--Vocational guidance.
Medical personnel.
Physicians.
Health Personnel.
Career Choice.
Vocational Guidance.
Medical Subjects:
Physicians.
Health Personnel.
Career Choice.
Vocational Guidance.
Physical Description:
xviii, 471 pages ; 25 cm.
Other Title:
Guide to careers in medicine & the health professions
Careers in medicine & the health professions
Yale guide to careers in medicine and the health professions
Guide to careers in medicine and the health professions
Careers in medicine and the health professions
Place of Publication:
New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, [2003]
Summary:
Can I become a doctor? Should I? How can I find out? What is it like to be in medical school? What other careers in the health field might be right for me? What are the satisfactions and pitfalls of a career in medicine? For anyone pondering a career in medicine or a related health profession, this book is an invaluable guide. It contains the first-hand advice of men and women working in the health field today. These diverse professionals describe how and why they made their career choices and what the journey has been like. They tell their stories with candor and humor, sharing their personal circumstances, experiences, uncertainties, and triumphs. More than seventy medical and health professionals, including physicians, biomedical researchers, nurses, chiropractors, medical sociologists, ethicists, and others, contribute to the volume. They represent many individual viewpoints and speak from different stages of their careers. The distilled wisdom of this group conveys more comprehensively and openly than ever before what it means to choose a career in medicine.
Contents:
Contemplating a career in medicine
Preparing for medical school
Training to become a doctor
Professing medicine
Practicing medicine
Practicing in the health sciences
Conducting biomedical research
Becoming a physician-executive
Thinking about medical writing.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
0300095422
0300100299
OCLC:
74810803

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