Category: Medical education

07/03/2017

I have a secret admiration for some aspects of surgical training. We all know the bad ones, so I do…

28/02/2017

Nice paper by Erik Driessen, and much more nuanced that my quotes might suggest. Worth a read. But still a phrase that…

24/02/2017

People who make predictions of how many doctors or even what specific type of doctor we need in (say) 20…

22/02/2017

I have written before about the problems that learning outcomes fail to deal with (Jorge Luis Borges and learning outcomes),…

10/02/2017

Not so long ago, at an internal meeting, the message was ‘things are tough for this year, and next, but…

07/02/2017

It was reading Herb Simon’s ‘Sciences of the Artificial’ that woke me up what some professional schools had in common.…

27/01/2017

’The average doctor who emerges from this process is usually a basically bright person with a mutilated mind.' Ouch!

18/01/2017

This is an absolutely terrific article about ‘Choosing a specialty’. It focuses on psychiatry and the particularly problems that effect…

28/12/2016

All to often people mortgage their honesty in order to purchase that which their colleagues mistake for rigour. I think…

26/12/2016

“In the village in which I live there is a pleasant doctor who is a little deaf. He is not…