Preparing for Residency

To better prepare medical residents, medical students, PAs, and NPs for becoming effective healthcare practitioners, it is necessary to offer early teaching of the "hidden curriculum": professional relationship dynamics (or team building) and clinical competence. The first half of this book is focused on strategies for team building, including how to identify and support burnt-out residents, delicately handle several forms of challenging patients (angry ones, nervous ones, malingerers, and more)