Medical Family & General Practice
Mindful Medical Practitioners
A Guide for Clinicians and Educators
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2016
- Category
- Family & General Practice, Clinical Psychology, Practice Management & Reimbursement
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9783319310640
- Publish Date
- Apr 2016
- List Price
- $116.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9783319809540
- Publish Date
- Apr 2018
- List Price
- $94.95
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Description
Following up onMindful Medical Practice, this book describes in detail how mindfulness is being taught to medical students, residents, practicing physicians, and allied health care professionals. Steps to set up and integrate programs into curricula are featured and educators' questions concerning practical aspects of doing this work are addressed. The argument on how to promote the kinds of leadership and cultural changes necessary are also discussed along with the many challenges facing health professionals in multiple settings. Mindful Medical Practitionersis an invaluable resource that raises interest, provides a rationale and details how to integrate mindfulness into clinical work and serves as a guide for those qualified to teach it.
About the authors
Contributor Notes
Patricia Lynn Dobkin, PhD, McGill Programs in Whole Person Care McGill University, Department of Medicine, Montreal, Canada
Craig Stephen Hassed, MD, Senior Lecturer Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Coordinator of Mindfulness Programs, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia