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Med students are 'unique, complex group9
. SALLY REESE
Times Medical Writer
Students at LSU School of Medicine in
Shreveport may be interested in a new
book by a professor of psychiatry at
LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans.
In Doctor-to-be: Coping with the
Trials and Triumphs of Medical
School, Dr. James A. Knight says medi-cal
students are a unique and complex
population. His book is based on recent
psychological, sociological and his-torical
research as well as more than 20
years' experience as counselor, teacher,
and interviewer for medical schools.
Appleton-Century-Crofts, a division
of Prentice-Hall Inc., has published it in
hardcover ($12.95) and paperback
($6.95). The following is from its news
release:
medical
beat
About 12,500 students enter medical
schools in the United States each year,
according to the former Tulane Univer-sity
dean of admissions. At least 50,000
are currently enrolled, and thousands of
other young people are contemplating
careers in medicine, he says.
They are an extremely diverse group,
according to Knight, but certain trends
and views are common. For example,
he says:
• Many medical students use sex as a
means of transcending their immersion
in or fear of death.
• Students planning to become
surgeons scored at the high end of the
authoritarian scale on recent person-ality
tests.
• Reading great literature may help
some med students come to terms with
their feelings about death.
• More than 60 percent of female
doctors are married to doctors.
• Mortality rates (especially those
related to suicide) are higher among
medical students than in the general
population.
• Medical students' methods of adap-ting
to stress tend to be obsessive-compulsive
and counter-phobic.
Says his publisher, Knight explores
the experiences of women, minority and
disadvantaged medical students, fac-tors
that go into a student's selection of
medical speciality, and fundamental
motives behind the decision to pursue a
medical career.
According to Knight, "The student
can be understood best if the emphasis
is placed on importance of 'identity' as
a principle motivation in one's life."
Knight's special areas of teaching
and research are human values and
medicine, the psychological growth of
the medical student, medical ethics,
student problems, suicide, the termi-nally
ill, and the psychological aspects
of organ transplantation.
Before entering the Louisiana medi-cal
curriculum, he was dean of the
College of Medicine at Texas A&M
University.
Object Description
| Title | Med Students are 'Unique, Complex Group' |
| Creator |
Reese, Sally |
| Subject |
Students, Medical Knight, James A. Authors |
| Publisher |
Shreveport Times |
| Date | 1981-08-23 |
| Identifier | See reference URL on the navigation bar. |
| Source | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport Medical Library (http://lib.sh.lsuhsc.edu) |
| Language | en |
| Relation | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/index_LSUHSCS_NPC.php?CISOROOT=/LSUHSCS_NPC |
| Coverage-Spatial | Shreveport (Caddo, La.) |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. |
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