The Pediatric Physician as Exemplary Human Being: John Kirkpatrick

Too much of the medical curriculum, whether at the level of medical school, residency, or continuing medical education, emphasizes the mind. Medical articles, books, lectures, and online education resources focus on conveying knowledge and skills, as though one could produce a good physicians merely by filling up heads with appropriate facts. In fact, however, good pediatric physicians are not only knowledgeable and skilled. They are also persons of high character, good human beings, and serve as a reminder of the need to educate the heart as well as the head.