By: Dr. Kaif Pardhan (@kaifpardhan) The last few years have been a tumultuous time in Canadian healthcare and an interesting time to begin a career as a medical educator. Controversial topics and conversations seem to […]
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Category: An Educational Moment
Story telling and Simulation: What are you really saying?
By Ben Symon (@symon_ben) Let me start with a story. “My son was born prematurely in a country that was not my own, and for the first month of his life I visited him once a […]
Pause for Thought . . . Autonomy, Safety and #MedEd
By Lynfa Stroud (@LynfaStroud) “3am with a really sick ward patient is the loneliest place in the world ….” – My Chief Medical Resident when I was a PGY1 In a post several months ago, I […]
Pause for Thought . . . ‘Kids these days!’
By Lynfa Stroud (@LynfaStroud) “When I was a resident ….” – Almost every faculty who ever lived It’s a refrain that I hear from faculty from time-to-time. It’s essentially the physician’s version of, “the good […]
Pause for Thought . . . Are innovations a “re-invent the wheel” phenomenon?
By Lynfa Stroud (@LynfaStroud) “Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.” – Steve Krug As a Clinician Educator, […]