Educating for Professionalism: Creating a Culture of Humanism in Medical Education.

Wear, Delese & Janet Bickel, eds. Educating for Professionalism, Creating a Culture of Humanism in Medical Education. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000; 800-621-2736; .

The thirteen essays in this study examine the often conflicting ethical, social, emotional, and intellectual messages that medical institutions send to students about what it means to be a doctor. This disconnect between what medical educators profess and what students...