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The Mindful Medical Student: A Psychiatrist's Guide to Staying Who You are While Becoming Who You Want to be

The Mindful Medical Student: A Psychiatrist's Guide to Staying Who You are While Becoming Who You Want to be

by Bernie Siegel (Contributor), Bernie Siegel (Contributor), Jeremy Spiegel (Author)

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Synopsis

Four years in medical school are not only demanding and competitive in a strictly academic sense, but they may bring students face-to-face with perfectionism, anxiety, obsessions, power plays, difficult patients, ethical dilemmas, identity crises, sleep deprivation, financial strain, and-perhaps for the first time in their lives-confrontations with disease, suffering, and death. The Mindful Medical Student will broaden readers' perspectives and cultivate their ability to respond to the extreme emotional, psychological, and spiritual challenges posed by medical school and, eventually, a medical career. Jeremy Spiegel, MD, tackled these issues head on, prevailed, and became a first-rate psychiatrist. Now, in a vital book, he shares what he has learned.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Published: 15 Jun 2009
ISBN 10: 1584657634
ISBN 13: 9781584657637

Media Reviews
Spiegel s work presents a valuable tool in negotiating the hidden curriculum of medical school cynicism, loneliness, and dishonesty. Its strength lies in its practical application of psychiatric techniques and in its accessible examples based on the experiences of other medical students and physicians. . . . By committing a few moments daily to some of these techniques, medical students and future physicians will profit well into their careers. The Journal of the American Medical Association
What sets The Mindful Medical Student apart from similarly themed books is its emphasis on achieving clarity, reflective capacity and wholeness through the creation of a uniquely personal narrative. Spiegel s techniques facilitate the processing of experiences so students take an active role in moulding their own transformation and protecting themselves against emotional shutdown and cynicism. . . . The Mindful Medical Student is an enjoyable read with an entertaining conversational style. Despite its title, the book shares valuable insights that may be useful for all health care providers in training. It is essentially a manual on how to maintain sanity in an often grueling medical environment and culture, makes a compelling argument that self-care is not a luxury. It gives students permission to step back from their textbooks, to distinguish the forest from the trees and to appreciate their special place in that forest. Canadian Medical Association Journal
Author Bio
DR. JEREMY SPIEGEL is a practicing psychiatrist in Portland, Maine. He has written for general, medical, and psychiatric publications. DR. BERNIE SIEGEL is a surgeon, a well-known self-help author, patient advocate, and a crusader for the humanization of medical education and care.