Faculty health in academic medicine: physicians, scientists, and the pressures of success

This ground-breaking new volume is the first of its kind to conceptualize andstudy the emerging field of faculty health and well-being in academic health science centers across North America. In Faculty Health and Academic Medicine:Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success, scholars already published in areas related to faculty health, as well as those primed to break new ground, have created a volume that will help define this new and evolving field. Recent years have brought the realization that clinicians and researchers inacademic medicine, performing daily under high levels of stress, do so at great cost to their health. Socialized to diagnose and treat disease through biomedical science and technology, physicians often wall themselves off from emotional connection with their patients. Health does not thrive under these layersof pressures, and family and personal relationships are stretched under the need to constantly perform. Ground breaking, first-of-its-kind title on the field of academic faculty health Unique, illuminating perspectives and theories -- from prevention and wellness to diagnosis and treatment issues Comprehensively reviews and explores the responsibilities that academic health centers haveto their faculty and which faculty in the health professions have to themselves and each other INDICE: From the contents The Context of Concern for Faculty Health.- Epidemiology.- Causes and Treatment of Impairment and Burnout in Physicians: The Epidemic Within.- Measuring and Maintaining Faculty Health: Lessons from the University of Ottawa.- The Architecture of Alignment: Leadership and the Psychological Health of Faculty.- The Career Management Life Cycle: A Model for Supporting and Sustaining Faculty Vitality and Wellness.- Faculty Resilience and Career Development: Strategies for Strengthening Academic Medicine.- Diverse Academic Faculty: A Precious Resource for Innovative Institutions.- Organizational Culture and its Consequences.- The Ethics of Self-Care.- Faculty Health and the Crisis of Meaning: Humanistic Diagnosis and Treatment.- Retaining and Reclaiming the Call of Medicine.- A Model for Designing and Developing a Faculty Health Program: The M.D. Anderson Experience.

• ISBN: 978-1-60327-450-0
• Editorial: Humana
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 285
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés