Professional, Ethical, Legal, and Educational Lessons in Medicine: A Problem-Based Learning Approach - Hardcover

by Kirk Lalwani (Author), Ira Todd Cohen (Author), Ellen Y. Choi (Author)

Professional, Ethical, Legal, and Educational Lessons in Medicine: A Problem Based Approach provides a comprehensive review of the complex and challenging field of professional medical practice. Its problem-based format incorporates a vast pool of practical, board-exam-style multiple-choice questions for self-assessment, and is an ideal resource for exam preparation as well as ongoing clinical education among trainees and clinicians
The practice of medicine is not only about clinical care of patients. Physicians must navigate ethical conundrums, legal pitfalls, and quality improvement issues while maintaining scrupulous professionalism and being exemplary educators. This volume addresses common issues in the realm of professional medical practice not typically covered in other texts.

Each of the 73 chapters presents a problem-based case that branches out into an oral board examination type stem questions. A discussion section with brief review articles summarizes the most recent literature. Multiple-choice questions with answers allows for comprehensive self-assessment or interactive group quizzes.

This book will appeal to medical and allied health professionals in all specialties of medicine. It is an excellent and hands-on reference for the related but diverse domains associated with professional healthcare practice by students, physicians, and other healthcare providers compacted into one volume.

Author Biography

Dr. Lalwani graduated from St. John's Medical College, India, and completed his residency training in Anesthesia and Critical Care at the Norwich, King's College, and Royal London Hospitals in London, UK. He completed his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, completed his Specialist Training in Anesthesia in the UK, then worked at Seattle Children's Hospital for two years before joining OHSU in 1999. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and is Board Certified in Anesthesiology and Pediatric Anesthesiology by the American Board of Anesthesiology.

Dr. Cohen graduated from New York University's School of Medicine in 1983. He completed a Pediatric Residency at the Albert Einstein Affiliated Hospitals in 1986, an Anesthesiology Residency at New York University in 1988 and a Fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology at Children's National in Washington, D.C. in 1989. Upon completion of his clinical training, he joined the Department of Anesthesiology at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh for four years and then returned Children's National. In 2005, Dr. Cohen earned a master's degree from the George Washington University, School of Education and Human Development. He has over the years served as Fellowship Program Director, President of the Society of Education, and Chair of the Committee for Continuing Education for the Society of Pediatric Anesthesia.

Dr. Ellen Choi received her BA in molecular and cell biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned her MD from the University of California, San Francisco. She completed her residency training in anesthesiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also served as chief resident. She then completed a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital in 2011. After fellowship, she returned to UCLA as faculty before joining the University of Chicago. She is board certified in Anesthesiology and Pediatric Anesthesiology by the American Board of Anesthesiology.

Dr. Robins graduated from the Mount Sinai Scholl of Medicine (now Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY), in 1989, following undergraduate study in Biology and Philosophy at the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY). He completed his Anesthesiology residency at Stanford University (Stanford, CA) in the Department of Anesthesiology, followed by a Fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology at The Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard University (Boston, MA), where he served as Chief Fellow. After a year on faculty at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN), he joined the faculty at OHSU in 1996. In 2016, he completed a Master's Degree in Bioethics and Health Policy at Loyola University Chicago (Chicago, IL). Additional training in Pediatric Bioethics was completed at Children's Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, MO) in 2017. He has co-taught graduate-level Pediatric Bioethics at Loyola University Chicago and has served on both the Ethics Consult Service and the Institutional Ethics Committee at OHSU. He is Board Certified in Anesthesiology and Sub-Specialty Certified in Pediatric Anesthesiology from the American Board of Anesthesiology.

Dr. Kirsch completed his residency in anesthesiology and fellowships in neuro-anesthesiology and neuro-critical care at Johns Hopkins. During his 20 years of service at Hopkins, he was vice chair of Education and Training and the residency program director. Dr. Jeffrey Kirsch is Chair-Emeritus of the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. He also served as a member of the ACGME Review Committee for Anesthesiology and currently is a member of the ACGME Board of Directors. Dr. Kirsch is Past President of SNACC, the Society of Associations of Academic Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, and Association of University Anesthesiologists. He currently serves the ASA as Chair of the Committee on Scientific Advisory and their representative to the Anesthesiology Research Council.