Main description:

This book will provide anyone with an interest in the clinic with a basic guide on those things that are not taught during medical school or any other pre-clinical trainings. The line-up of authors was carefully assembled to include experts in all respective fields to give this volume the authority it requires to be a relevant text for many.

Contents:

Foreword

1. Succeeding in your consultant interview; Matt Green

2. Clinical leadership and engagement: No longer an optional extra; John Clark

3. The art of negotiation, handling difficult behaviour, and facing the media; Lucky Jain, Sanjay Patole, Sarah Sloan

4. Handling complaints, meetings, and presentations; Haribalakrishna Balasubramanian, Sanjay Patole

5. Performance appraisal and assessment; Paul Craven

6. Quality improvement; Brendan Paul Murphy

7. Risk management; Bronwyn Shumack

8. Root cause analysis; Aarti Raghavan

9. Occupational health and safety; Paul Rothmore

10. Coping with stress; Christopher Griffin

11. The nature of conflict in health-care; Catherine Campbell, Corrine Reid

12. Evidence based management; Ravi Madhavan, Ajay Niranjan

13. Clinical handovers; Sachin Amin

14. The educational role of senior hospital staff; Fiona Lake

15. Mentoring; Deepika Wagh, Sanjay Patole

16. Expert or impostor- understanding the role of the expert witness; Denise Bowen

17. How to dress at work; Rajiv Padhye, Rajkishore Nayak, Lijing Wang

18. Managing ethically complex issues in critically ill patients - a neonatal perspective; Paul Byrne, Brendan Leier

19. Communicating bad news in the health care organization; Olachi Mezu-Ndubuisi

20. Managing grief and its consequences at the workplace; Robert Anderson, Marie-Louise Collins

Index