A new role for Balint groups in overcoming professional isolation and loneliness
| Autor: | John J. Frey |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Medical education Physician-Patient Relations Isolation (health care) Interprofessional Relations Loneliness education Specialty Collegiality 030227 psychiatry Group Processes 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health 0302 clinical medicine Social Isolation Physicians medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine medicine.symptom Psychology |
| Zdroj: | International journal of psychiatry in medicine. 55(1) |
| ISSN: | 1541-3527 |
| Popis: | Since its formal designation as a specialty in 1969, family medicine has embraced the concept of education in the doctor–patient relationship grounded in the principles of continuity and comprehensive care of families. As such, the influence of Balint groups on education has been ongoing and persistent, despite the vagaries of changing structures for education. However, in the United States, the focus has been heavily in resident education. As medicine has fragmented into narrow venues such as hospital care, urgent care, and subspecialty care in family medicine, physicians have become more disconnected physically and isolated from each other. Balint trained leaders and Balint groups—whether following the formal structure of traditional groups or serving as a safe place for conversations about the struggles in medicine and the meaning of the profession—have the opportunity to help heal the professional loneliness and isolation of physicians. Leaders and clinicians need to demand support for this idea in large health systems. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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