Advances in Medical Education: The Heart of the Matter

Bleakley, Alan

This book challenges functional models for more aesthetic and ethical models, where communication is grounded in values systems of cultures. Here, communication is treated as a distributed phenomenon involving networks of persons, activities and artifacts, and extends beyond doctor-patient relationships to working in and across teams around patients. The purpose of the book is to stimulate thinking about how patient care and safety may be improved through a focus upon the ‘non-technical’ work of doctors – interpersonal communication, teamwork and situation awareness in teams. The focus is then not on the personality of the doctor, but on the dynamics of relationships which form doctors’ multiple identities.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2014-02-10

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319024868

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02487-5

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 267