Hacking medical education 20150604

HackingMEDICAL EDUCATION

Chris NicksonThe Alfred ICU

Financial Conflicts of Interest

NO

7 HACKS

Image from “The Matrix”

SAY WHAT?“Hacking”

“gaining unauthorized access to data in a

system or computer”

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/

“cut with rough or heavy blows”


“to modify or write (a program)

in a skillful or clever way”


SAY WHAT?Medical education

I don’t mean med school

“Perfect happiness for student and teacher will come with the abolition of examinations, which are stumbling blocks and rocks of offense in the pathway of the true student.”

“I do not know of any stimulus so healthy as knowledge on the part of the student that he will receive an examination at the end of his course...”

“… It gives sharpness to his dissecting knife, heat to his Bunsen burner, a well worn appearance to his stethoscope, and a particular neatness to his bandaging.”

Lifelong learning in medicine

HACK #1Learn from Osler!

The master word is workhttp://lifeinthefastlane.com/becoming-an-oslerphile/

Photos of Sir William Osler fromwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca

Medicine is learned at

the bedside

HACK #2Discover the

hidden curriculum!

Many exams await you!

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/lessons-from-osler-005-2/

You must create your own ever-evolving personalised curriculum

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/we-dont-need-no-foam-curriculum/

HACK #3Apply cognitive

science!

Use Retrieval Practice and take advantage of the Test EffectPhoto by US Navy, https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavy/5518035282

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/learning-by-spaced-repetition/

Remember using Spaced Repetition

Use Generation to prime your mind

Use Elaboration to add layers

Photo by US Navy, https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavy/17418851520

Engage in ReflectionThree Spheres by MC Escher

You need CalibrationPhoto by Ken FUNAKOSHI https://www.flickr.com/photos/trektrack/6856487131/

Interleaveyour

practice

Photo by Keith Allison http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shaq_free_throw.jpg

rereadinghighlightingsummarising

AVOID:

HACK #4Simulate!

Photo courtesy of GSA HEMShttp://lifeinthefastlane.com/ccc/situ-simulation/

HACK #5Join the FOAM

party!

FREEOPENACCESSMEDUCATION

#FOAMed

316FOAM is now mainstream

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/resources/emergency-medicine-blogs/

Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere

Photo credit: stefan

Tacit knowledge sharing

That’s just in time…

Photo courtesy of Cliff Reid

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/07/information-overload/

FILTER FAILURE

Photos of Sir William Osler fromwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca

Nothing replaces the

bedside mentor

HACK #6Be a Critical

Thinker!

Identifiable? Qualifications?

Conflicts of Interest?Does what I know check

out?

Logical? References?

Trusted recommendations?

Response to criticism?

Identifiable? Qualifications?

Conflicts of Interest?Does what I know

check out?

Logical? References?

Trusted recommendations?

Response to criticism?

CAVEAT EMPTO

R

HACK #7Work smarter &

‘get things done’!

“To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.”

http://www.aliem.com/category/non-clinical/how-i-work-smarter/

http://emcrit.org/podcasts/getting-shit-done/

FINAL WORDS

Learn to learn…

Learning is hard…

Learn to love it anyway…

Strive for mastery, not success…

and remember…

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/04/laws-for-the-navigation-of-life/

The 22nd of Peter Safar’s Laws for the Navigation of Life

It is up to us to save the

world!

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