Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Education
Learning About Healing In Family Medicine: Making Doctors In An American Medical Residency Program, Edward John Rohn
Learning About Healing In Family Medicine: Making Doctors In An American Medical Residency Program, Edward John Rohn
Wayne State University Dissertations
This ethnographic study identified and described healing and the making of healers in the context of an American family medicine residency training program. The project goal was to describe the training of family medicine physicians through observation and interviews with resident and faculty physicians. The project investigated discourses and practices around healing. The aims of this study included: (1) to identify and describe the educational processes in a residency training program towards professional socialization of residents into family medicine. (2) To describe how the habitus of the residency informed the ways in which residents came to embody of the role …