Program directors believe elements of the Role are difficult to teach and assess. Providing faculty with skills for teaching/assessing the Role and evaluating effectiveness in changing attitudes/behaviors should be a priority in postgraduate programs.
Remediation policies and practices in Canada align well with published best practices in this area. Based on key informant opinions, flexibility to avoid training extension and use of an educational review board may also support optimal remediation outcomes.
Contracting A Cure describes the philosophies and practices governing the provision of medical care from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in Bologna, Italy from the perspectives both of those providing and those receiving medical care. The reader will be most surprised in reading this book to learn that the relationship between patients and "healers" was more egalitarian in these premodem times than it is today. Giama Pomata attributes this in large part to the existence of the "agreement for cure," which is the focus of her attention throughout this book. In addition to describing the healer-patient relationship, she also looks at who-and how-medical care was regulated at this time. Here we do not see such a great discrepancy between how those institutions functioned when compared to their modern-day counterparts.The author uses as her primary sources of information the archival records of the College of Medicine of Bologna and those of the Protomedicato, the magisterial arm of the College. The College of Medicine of Bologna consisted of an elite group of 15 physicians who represented "an academic oligarchy rather
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