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Where do physicians start and end?
Author(s) -
H Ellaway Rachel,
Topps David,
Topps Maureen
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/medu.13095
Subject(s) - scholarship , existentialism , identity (music) , field (mathematics) , psychology , medical education , focus (optics) , cognition , medicine , epistemology , political science , philosophy , physics , mathematics , optics , acoustics , pure mathematics , law , neuroscience
Medical education is primarily about training physicians and maintaining their capabilities over time. Given that physicians are the primary focus of the field, there is a need for a clear idea of what physicians are or could be. This paper seeks to explore this issue by posing the simple question: ?Where do physicians start and end?’ In doing so, the authors explore a series of different conceptual frames, including those of a physician’s physical dimensions, their cellular boundaries, personal intentions and beliefs, professional identity, regulation, entrustability, professional performance, extended cognition, and disability. This existential look at the concept of a physician demonstrates the plurality of medical education scholarship and the implications of the many intersecting points of view in the field.