J. Donald Boudreau, a graduate of Dalhousie University, is a respiratory physician. He is a former Associate Dean of undergraduate medical education at McGill University, a member of its Centre for Medical Education, and a Professor of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, a foundation dedicated to promoting humanism in medicine.Eric J. Cassell is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at McGill University. He is also a fellow of the Hastings Centre, a member of the Institutes of Health of the National Academy of Sciences, and Master of the American College of Physicians.Abraham Fuks is a clinical immunologist with experience in research and clinical practice. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill from 1995 to 2006 and was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University in 2007-2008. He has an ongoing scholarly interest in the language of medicine and its metaphoric structure and in the role of narratives in the patient-physician relationship.

Physicianship and the Rebirth of Medical Education is one of the most exciting books about medical education that I've ever read. It might be the best export McGill University has sent us since William Osler departed for Philadelphia.

• Preface Introduction SECTION ONE Clinical Medicine Chapter 1 Health, Illness and Disease Chapter 2 Functioning Chapter 3 The Goals of Physicians Chapter 4 Person-centeredness Chapter 5 The Doctor-Patient Relationship Chapter 6 The 'Good Doctor' SECTION TWO Teaching the Clinical Method Chapter 7 The Clinical Method and Subjectivity in Medicine Chapter 8 Medical Education: Highlights of the Past Two Centuries Chapter 9 Competency-Based Education Chapter 10 The Rise and Fall of Clinical Teaching Chapter 11 Teaching a Clinical Method Adapted to Contemporary Medicine SECTION THREE The Physicianship Curriculum Chapter 12 Building on Past Experience Chapter 13 Theory Chapter 14 Educational Blueprint: Phases I to IV Chapter 15 Phase I - The Person Chapter 16 Phase II - Sick Persons Chapter 17 Phases III and IV - Doctoring Afterword Epilogue by J. Donald Boudreau Epilogue by Eric J. Cassell Epilogue by Abraham Fuks About the Authors Acknowledgments Index

J. Donald Boudreau, a graduate of Dalhousie University, is a respiratory physician. He is a former Associate Dean of undergraduate medical education at McGill University, a member of its Centre for Medical Education, and a Professor of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, a foundation dedicated to promoting humanism in medicine.Eric J. Cassell is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at McGill University. He is also a fellow of the Hastings Centre, a member of the Institutes of Health of the National Academy of Sciences, and Master of the American College of Physicians.Abraham Fuks is a clinical immunologist with experience in research and clinical practice. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill from 1995 to 2006 and was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University in 2007-2008. He has an ongoing scholarly interest in the language of medicine and its metaphoric structure and in the role of narratives in the patient-physician relationship.

Physicianship and the Rebirth of Medical Education is one of the most exciting books about medical education that I've ever read. It might be the best export McGill University has sent us since William Osler departed for Philadelphia.

• Preface Introduction SECTION ONE Clinical Medicine Chapter 1 Health, Illness and Disease Chapter 2 Functioning Chapter 3 The Goals of Physicians Chapter 4 Person-centeredness Chapter 5 The Doctor-Patient Relationship Chapter 6 The 'Good Doctor' SECTION TWO Teaching the Clinical Method Chapter 7 The Clinical Method and Subjectivity in Medicine Chapter 8 Medical Education: Highlights of the Past Two Centuries Chapter 9 Competency-Based Education Chapter 10 The Rise and Fall of Clinical Teaching Chapter 11 Teaching a Clinical Method Adapted to Contemporary Medicine SECTION THREE The Physicianship Curriculum Chapter 12 Building on Past Experience Chapter 13 Theory Chapter 14 Educational Blueprint: Phases I to IV Chapter 15 Phase I - The Person Chapter 16 Phase II - Sick Persons Chapter 17 Phases III and IV - Doctoring Afterword Epilogue by J. Donald Boudreau Epilogue by Eric J. Cassell Epilogue by Abraham Fuks About the Authors Acknowledgments Index

J. Donald Boudreau, a graduate of Dalhousie University, is a respiratory physician. He is a former Associate Dean of undergraduate medical education at McGill University, a member of its Centre for Medical Education, and a Professor of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, a foundation dedicated to promoting humanism in medicine.Eric J. Cassell is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at McGill University. He is also a fellow of the Hastings Centre, a member of the Institutes of Health of the National Academy of Sciences, and Master of the American College of Physicians.Abraham Fuks is a clinical immunologist with experience in research and clinical practice. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill from 1995 to 2006 and was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University in 2007-2008. He has an ongoing scholarly interest in the language of medicine and its metaphoric structure and in the role of narratives in the patient-physician relationship.

Physicianship and the Rebirth of Medical Education is one of the most exciting books about medical education that I've ever read. It might be the best export McGill University has sent us since William Osler departed for Philadelphia.

• Preface Introduction SECTION ONE Clinical Medicine Chapter 1 Health, Illness and Disease Chapter 2 Functioning Chapter 3 The Goals of Physicians Chapter 4 Person-centeredness Chapter 5 The Doctor-Patient Relationship Chapter 6 The 'Good Doctor' SECTION TWO Teaching the Clinical Method Chapter 7 The Clinical Method and Subjectivity in Medicine Chapter 8 Medical Education: Highlights of the Past Two Centuries Chapter 9 Competency-Based Education Chapter 10 The Rise and Fall of Clinical Teaching Chapter 11 Teaching a Clinical Method Adapted to Contemporary Medicine SECTION THREE The Physicianship Curriculum Chapter 12 Building on Past Experience Chapter 13 Theory Chapter 14 Educational Blueprint: Phases I to IV Chapter 15 Phase I - The Person Chapter 16 Phase II - Sick Persons Chapter 17 Phases III and IV - Doctoring Afterword Epilogue by J. Donald Boudreau Epilogue by Eric J. Cassell Epilogue by Abraham Fuks About the Authors Acknowledgments Index