A compassionate guide to writing your way back to purpose for healthcare professionals. Physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals are leaving medicine in record numbers due in large part to exhaustion, disillusionment, and a profound loss of joy in their work. In A Prescription for Burnout: Restorative Writing for Healthcare ......
My Journey Through Global Health and Higher Education
In Medical Missionary: My Journey Through Global Health and Higher Education, Dan Jones explores his personal journey as a spiritual pilgrim and the many surprising twists along the way. Providing readers with a lens to share in remarkable events, Jones reflects on the choices he made during an unexpected and winding path from rural Mississippi in ......
Offering simple, practical advice, this handbook helps primary care pediatricians effectively use the basic tools of addiction medicine to advance substance use prevention and to address substance use disorders (SUD) in their patients. Parents and teens often have questions about cannabis, nicotine, alcohol, and other substances. More than 8% of ......
A practical, empowering guide to help medical students embark on research projects with confidence. Practical advice for medical students, based on the premise that every student can participate meaningfully in research and scientific discovery. This guide supports learners through every step-from preparation and project design to publication and ......
Designed to fit in a lab coat pocket, this guide equips nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and medical students with a concise and practical tool for conducting thorough medical histories and physical examinations. The pocketbook provides a step-by-step approach for collecting a patient's medical history and performing a physical ......
A compassionate and insightful guide to understanding high-risk pregnancies. In the United States, millions of people experience the life-changing event of pregnancy every year, but for nearly one-third of them, the journey comes with heightened risks. In this compassionate guide, obstetrician-gynecologist Alan M. Peaceman, MD, explores the ......
When should you scratch-and when should you let an itch be? Living without Itch offers the millions of people suffering from itch an essential and updated guide on how to find relief from their suffering.
A Guide to Successful Application to Dental and Medical School
Clinical Applications and Medical Practice: A Guide to Successful Application to Dental and Medical School well prepares upper-level undergraduate students who aspire to pursue further education in dental or medical healthcare professional schools. It provides students with a roadmap offering guidelines and information on the crucial steps ......
The Journal of Best Practices in Health Professions Diversity: Research, Education and Policy is an open access journal published by Winston-Salem State University with support from the National Association of Medical Minority Educators. Visit www.uncpress.org for open access links and more information. Articles in Volume 16, Number 1 (Spring ......