Don’t just do something, stand there

Jerome R Hoffman; Michael S Wilkes

doi:10.5712/rbmfc10(35)1051

Autores/as

Jerome R Hoffman Professor Emeritus of Medicine. UCLA School of Medicine. Los Angeles, USA.
Michael S Wilkes Professor of Medicine and Global Health. UC Davis School of Medicine. Sacramento, USA.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5712/rbmfc10(35)1051

Resumen

Imagine a (hypothetical) screening test which, done in a population of average risk, saves one person from dying from cancer out of every 10,000 people screened. Imagine as well that every one of those 10,000 pays a price in terms of time and money spent, as well as discomfort, and that some or even many of them will also have to deal with increased anxiety, repeat testing, biopsies, and in a few cases, surgery. Finally, a few will have serious adverse effects like infection or organ failure.

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Biografía del autor/a

Jerome R Hoffman, Professor Emeritus of Medicine. UCLA School of Medicine. Los Angeles, USA.

Dr. Hoffman is Professor of Medicine / Emergency Medicine at UCLA, where he has been on the full-time faculty since 1979. Dr. Hoffman received his BA from Princeton University, and has advanced degrees from Columbia University and the University of California. He has directed the UCLA Doctoring Program since the early 1990s, and his research focuses on Health Services Research and Clinical Decision Making, as well as in areas related to Medical Education.

Michael S Wilkes, Professor of Medicine and Global Health. UC Davis School of Medicine. Sacramento, USA.

Michael Wilkes is widely known for his efforts to introduce medical students to the humanistic side of being a physician, and for working tirelessly to include the public health and social sciences as part of training physicians. During his tenure as Vice Dean of the Medical School he lead the way toward enormous changes in medical education at UC Davis including the rural prime program, the college system of mentoring, a new education building, and a dramatic shift away from lectures toward small group and interactive learning. Wilkes introduced UC Davis' "Doctoring" curriculum, a series of classes and seminars for all four years of medical school. Topics within the curriculum include doctor- patient communication, clinical reasoning and end-of-life care, to name but a few. Dr. Wilkes has extensive experience in the development, management, and evaluation of eLearning technologies. In his current capacity as Director of Global Health he works locally with the UC Davis Vet and Nursing faculty and with medical and health sciences schools around the world as they seek to train the most capable health providers to address local health needs. He serves as a reviewer for many medical publications. He is the Director of the UC Davis Adolescent Clinic.

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