By Leonardo Aliaga (@BolivianLeo) Adaptive expertise is the ability to transfer existing skills and knowledge to solve novel problems.1 Transfer is the currency of adaptive expertise. Achieving transfer depends on “seeing” a topic’s underlying structure.2 […]
By Michael Gisondi (@MikeGisondi) Many physicians derive professional satisfaction from their relationships with families that evolve over many years… with births, illnesses, milestones, and deaths along the way. Such lengthy relationships weren’t that important to […]
By Michael Gisondi (@MikeGisondi) This post is meant to be a check-in for all the education research mentors out there. Is that you? Are you someone’s mentor? If so, what does that mean? What should […]
By Michael Gisondi (@MikeGisondi) Let’s start with an unlikely case. You are a family physician leading an inpatient service that cares for patients with COVID-19. While preparing for rounds one morning, you overhear your chief […]
Henry Bair (@_HenryBair_) and Paul Horak BEING MORTAL Since our first year of medical school, we have directed three cycles of a highly interactive seminar course titled, Being Mortal. The course aims to address educational […]