Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical SchoolHoward Saul Becker The transition from young layman aspiring to be a physician to the young physician skilled in technique and confident in his dealings with patients is slow and halting. To study medicine is generally rated one of the major educational ordeals of American youth. The difficulty of this process and how medical students feel about their training, their doctor-teachers, and the profession they are entering is the target of this study. Now regarded as a classic, Boys in White is of vital interest to medical educators and sociologists. By daily interviews and observations in classes, wards, laboratories, and operating theaters, the team of sociologists who carried out this firsthand research have not only captured the worries, cynicism, and basic idealism of medical studentsâ they have also documented many other realities of medical education in relation to society. With some sixty tables and illustrations, the book is a major experiment in analyzing and presenting qualitative data. |
Contents
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A Brief Description | 49 |
The Best | 67 |
Freshman Medical Schedule 195657 | 82 |
It All | 92 |
You Cant | 107 |
Events of the Period of the Provisional Perspective | 108 |
Frequency of Observed Expressions of Initial Per | 128 |
Evidence for the Existence of the Clinical Experi | 252 |
Evidence for the Existence of the Responsibility | 267 |
Dealing with | 274 |
Student Grade Card | 276 |
Student Responses to Question on Trauma in Med | 283 |
Evidence for the Existence of the Academic Per | 294 |
Evidence for Existence of the Student Cooperation | 310 |
The Cultural Roots of Student Attitudes toward | 339 |
The Provisional | 135 |
Data of the Provisional Perspective Classified | 136 |
Class Seating PatternSecond Lecture | 140 |
Per Cent of Each Companionship Group Having | 144 |
What They Want | 158 |
Events of the Period of the Final Perspective | 160 |
A NOTE ON THE SOPHOMORE YEAR | 185 |
The Work of the Clinical Years | 191 |
Distribution of Observed Instances of Use | 251 |