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Volume 345:227-228 July 19, 2001 Number 3
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Educating for Professionalism: Creating a Culture of Humanism in Medical Education

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Edited by Delese Wear and Janet Bickel. 215 pp. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 2000. $42.95. ISBN 0-87745-741-7.

Educating for Professionalism: Creating a Culture of Humanism in Medical Education presents a candid and sometimes painful look at the culture of undergraduate medical education. "We are learning when you least expect it," says an anonymous medical student in the book's epigraph; this may be an alarming notion, given the current state of health care in America. The 13 essays in the book, which were written and edited by a diverse group of respected medical educators, address this notion and offer nothing short of hope for the future.

"How does . . . a commitment to the well-being of others . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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