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HackingMEDICAL EDUCATION
Chris NicksonThe Alfred ICU
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Financial Conflicts of Interest
NO
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Image from “The Matrix”
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SAY WHAT?“Hacking”
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“gaining unauthorized access to data in a
system or computer”
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/
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“cut with rough or heavy blows”
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/
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“to modify or write (a program)
in a skillful or clever way”
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/
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SAY WHAT?Medical education
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I don’t mean med school
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“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.”
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“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...”
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“… 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.”
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Lifelong learning in medicine
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HACK #1Learn from Osler!
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The master word is workhttp://lifeinthefastlane.com/becoming-an-oslerphile/
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Photos of Sir William Osler fromwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca
Medicine is learned at
the bedside
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HACK #2Discover the
hidden curriculum!
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Many exams await you!
http://lifeinthefastlane.com/lessons-from-osler-005-2/
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You must create your own ever-evolving personalised curriculum
http://lifeinthefastlane.com/we-dont-need-no-foam-curriculum/
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HACK #3Apply cognitive
science!
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Use Retrieval Practice and take advantage of the Test EffectPhoto by US Navy, https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavy/5518035282
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http://lifeinthefastlane.com/learning-by-spaced-repetition/
Remember using Spaced Repetition
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Use Generation to prime your mind
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Use Elaboration to add layers
Photo by US Navy, https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavy/17418851520
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Engage in ReflectionThree Spheres by MC Escher
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You need CalibrationPhoto by Ken FUNAKOSHI https://www.flickr.com/photos/trektrack/6856487131/
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Interleaveyour
practice
Photo by Keith Allison http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shaq_free_throw.jpg
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rereadinghighlightingsummarising
AVOID:
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Photo courtesy of GSA HEMShttp://lifeinthefastlane.com/ccc/situ-simulation/
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HACK #5Join the FOAM
party!
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FREEOPENACCESSMEDUCATION
#FOAMed
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316FOAM is now mainstream
http://lifeinthefastlane.com/resources/emergency-medicine-blogs/
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Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere
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Photo credit: stefan
Tacit knowledge sharing
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That’s just in time…
Photo courtesy of Cliff Reid
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http://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/07/information-overload/
FILTER FAILURE
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Photos of Sir William Osler fromwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca
Nothing replaces the
bedside mentor
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HACK #6Be a Critical
Thinker!
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Identifiable? Qualifications?
Conflicts of Interest?Does what I know check
out?
Logical? References?
Trusted recommendations?
Response to criticism?
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Identifiable? Qualifications?
Conflicts of Interest?Does what I know check
out?
Logical? References?
Trusted recommendations?
Response to criticism?
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Identifiable? Qualifications?
Conflicts of Interest?Does what I know check
out?
Logical? References?
Trusted recommendations?
Response to criticism?
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Identifiable? Qualifications?
Conflicts of Interest?Does what I know
check out?
Logical? References?
Trusted recommendations?
Response to criticism?
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Identifiable? Qualifications?
Conflicts of Interest?Does what I know
check out?
Logical? References?
Trusted recommendations?
Response to criticism?
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Identifiable? Qualifications?
Conflicts of Interest?Does what I know
check out?
Logical? References?
Trusted recommendations?
Response to criticism?
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Identifiable? Qualifications?
Conflicts of Interest?Does what I know
check out?
Logical? References?
Trusted recommendations?
Response to criticism?
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Identifiable? Qualifications?
Conflicts of Interest?Does what I know
check out?
Logical? References?
Trusted recommendations?
Response to criticism?
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HACK #7Work smarter &
‘get things done’!
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“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/
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Learning is hard…
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Learn to love it anyway…
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Strive for mastery, not success…
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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!