Diary on medical education, 1948-1951.

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Diary on medical education, 1948-1951.

The diary, with entries from 1948 through 1951, covers her husband's, Stanley W. Jackson's, third and fourth years of medical school at McGill University School of Medicine, his first year of residency in psychiatry at the Royal Victorian Hospital in Montreal, and a summer at the Provincial Mental Hospital in Essondale, British Columbia. The diary covers postwar years when many of the medical students, like Jackson, were returned servicemen rather than new college graduates. "The purpose of this diary was mainly to document how the medical training prepared students not only with the medical and scientific knowledge and skills required of doctors, but also with the social skills they would need, i.e. the roles of a doctor. Secondarily, the diary included attitudes of friends, acquaintances and co-workers toward illness, doctors, and treatment of illness." Joan Jackson's CV and her explanation for writing the diary (2005) are also included with the diary.

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Royal Victoria Hospital (Montreal)

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Jackson, Joan K.

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Joan K. Jackson received her PhD in sociology from the University of Washington in 1955. She was a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Washington until 1964, when she moved to New Haven with her husband, Stanley W. Jackson, M.D., who joined the Department of Psychiatry at Yale, and later served as head of the Yale Psychiatric Institute. Joan Jackson conducted pioneering research on alcoholism and the family. After 1964 she served as a consultant on alcoho...

McGill University. Faculty of Medicine

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Jackson, Stanley W., 1920-....

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