The Role of the Psychologist in Medical Education and Practice
A Challenge Posed by Comprehensive Medicine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2497523 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph D Matarazzo (Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1955 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 9-14 |
| Publication date | 1955-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/humo.14.2.v66231g11rk283gp |
| OpenAlex | W2090462559 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
In a previous article (10) an attempt was made to review recent developments in medical education which have resulted in a new philosophy of medical student teaching. The term most often used to designate these developments is Comprehensive Medicine, a substitute for the term Specialized Medicine which characterized the preceding era in medical education. This latter was an age in which teaching was compartmentalized along departmental lines and the various teachers concentrated on one or another diseased organ or body system with little or no overlap. The result was to lose sight of the patient as a unique individual. To this extent medical education provided an inaccurate preview of future medical practice for the young physician in training. Lack of instruction in the role of social as well as other psychological factors in illness was the major undesirable feature of this otherwise successful era
Medical education · Medical practice · Term (time) · Child and Adolescent Health · Empathy and Medical Education · Innovations in Medical Education · Medicine · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |