Guide to Becoming a Physician
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Copyright: 2023
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This curriculum of this program and website provides a broad survey of the premedical studies, the preparation for medical school admission, and the medical profession itself. Throughout the website and course, we will address the following: the major topics of medical school admission requirements and procedures, the academic coursework at both the undergraduate and medical school levels, the residency training of the physician, the typical routines of a medical practice, the changing state of health care, and other issues affecting the training of a medical doctor in the United States. The text and website follow the chronological sequence a traditional student will follow to become a licensed medical doctor in the United States. The website will look at these chronological events and examine how they play an integral part in the development of a skilled physician.
TEXT AND WEBSITE OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this program, students will:
Demonstrate knowledge of typical and atypical undergraduate options in the students’ preparation for medical school.
Demonstrate understanding of both the universality and uniqueness of the medical profession.
Demonstrate an understanding of the medical school admission process.
Describe the implications and issues currently affecting the medical profession.
Demonstrate knowledge of philosophies, theories, and issues relating to the training of a medical doctor in the United States.
Demonstrate an awareness of their own personal ambitions and values so they can relate them to their future in the medical profession.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Guide to Becoming a Physician
Chapter 2: Undergraduate Premedical Programs
Chapter 3: Medical School Application Process
Chapter 4: Nontraditional/Veteran/Military Applicants
Chapter 5: Osteopathic and Allopathic Medicine
Chapter 6: Joint Degree Medical Programs
Chapter 7: Medical School Curriculum – Preclinical Years
Chapter 8: Medical School Curriculum – Clinical Years
Chapter 9: Residency Application Process
Chapter 10: Graduate Medical Education
Chapter 11: The Practice of Medicine
Chapter 12: Medicine and Research
Chapter 13: Money and Medicine
Chapter 14: Family and Medicine
Bobbie Ann “BA” Adair White is an educator, coach, and consultant, teaching and researching in the following content areas: emotional intelligence in teams, conflict management, leadership, and health professions education. Her formal education includes a BA in psychology, a MA in industrial and organizational psychology, and a doctorate in educational leadership with a dissertation entitled “Conflict Management Education as a Tool for Leadership Development in the Intensive Care Unit.”
BA’s passion is to help others achieve their goals. To accomplish this, she serves as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow and Associate Professor at Massachusetts General Hospital’s (MGH) Institute of Health Professions in the Department of Health Professions Education in Boston, Massachusetts. She has published textbooks, peer-reviewed articles and conference abstracts. One text of note that served as inspiration for this current text is Cultivating Leadership in Medicine, which was developed to teach about leadership and emotional intelligence in medicine as well as to help institutions create leadership programs.
Additionally, she serves as a leadership coach and faculty member in the Department of Surgery at Baylor Scott and White Health and Baylor College of Medicine, where leading with emotional intelligence is a key topic for education, research, and coaching.
Finally, BA enjoys spending time with her busy family. She and her husband, Heath, share two adorable kiddos, JuliAnn and Preston, and they spend their extra time training and spoiling their dogs (Boston and Fenway)
This curriculum of this program and website provides a broad survey of the premedical studies, the preparation for medical school admission, and the medical profession itself. Throughout the website and course, we will address the following: the major topics of medical school admission requirements and procedures, the academic coursework at both the undergraduate and medical school levels, the residency training of the physician, the typical routines of a medical practice, the changing state of health care, and other issues affecting the training of a medical doctor in the United States. The text and website follow the chronological sequence a traditional student will follow to become a licensed medical doctor in the United States. The website will look at these chronological events and examine how they play an integral part in the development of a skilled physician.
TEXT AND WEBSITE OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this program, students will:
Demonstrate knowledge of typical and atypical undergraduate options in the students’ preparation for medical school.
Demonstrate understanding of both the universality and uniqueness of the medical profession.
Demonstrate an understanding of the medical school admission process.
Describe the implications and issues currently affecting the medical profession.
Demonstrate knowledge of philosophies, theories, and issues relating to the training of a medical doctor in the United States.
Demonstrate an awareness of their own personal ambitions and values so they can relate them to their future in the medical profession.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Guide to Becoming a Physician
Chapter 2: Undergraduate Premedical Programs
Chapter 3: Medical School Application Process
Chapter 4: Nontraditional/Veteran/Military Applicants
Chapter 5: Osteopathic and Allopathic Medicine
Chapter 6: Joint Degree Medical Programs
Chapter 7: Medical School Curriculum – Preclinical Years
Chapter 8: Medical School Curriculum – Clinical Years
Chapter 9: Residency Application Process
Chapter 10: Graduate Medical Education
Chapter 11: The Practice of Medicine
Chapter 12: Medicine and Research
Chapter 13: Money and Medicine
Chapter 14: Family and Medicine
Bobbie Ann “BA” Adair White is an educator, coach, and consultant, teaching and researching in the following content areas: emotional intelligence in teams, conflict management, leadership, and health professions education. Her formal education includes a BA in psychology, a MA in industrial and organizational psychology, and a doctorate in educational leadership with a dissertation entitled “Conflict Management Education as a Tool for Leadership Development in the Intensive Care Unit.”
BA’s passion is to help others achieve their goals. To accomplish this, she serves as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow and Associate Professor at Massachusetts General Hospital’s (MGH) Institute of Health Professions in the Department of Health Professions Education in Boston, Massachusetts. She has published textbooks, peer-reviewed articles and conference abstracts. One text of note that served as inspiration for this current text is Cultivating Leadership in Medicine, which was developed to teach about leadership and emotional intelligence in medicine as well as to help institutions create leadership programs.
Additionally, she serves as a leadership coach and faculty member in the Department of Surgery at Baylor Scott and White Health and Baylor College of Medicine, where leading with emotional intelligence is a key topic for education, research, and coaching.
Finally, BA enjoys spending time with her busy family. She and her husband, Heath, share two adorable kiddos, JuliAnn and Preston, and they spend their extra time training and spoiling their dogs (Boston and Fenway)