In today’s ICE Blog post,Ben Kinnear (@Midwest_MedPeds) interviews Eric Holmboe (@boedudley) about a term he coined that many of us can relate to. Dr. Holmboe, thank you for your time. Over the last few years, […]
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Category: Anthropology
Moving Away from the Battlefield: Stress and Learning in MedEd
By Ben Kinnear (@Midwest_MedPeds) In their 2015 commentary in the Journal of Surgical Education, Dr. James Healy and Dr. Peter Yoo recall being “pimped” as medical students about diseases of the esophagus. It’s an interesting […]
A day (or two) as an anthropologist
Editor’s note: In January 2019, we published a research project “Identifying and Transmitting the Culture of Emergency Medicine Through Simulation”. I highlighted some of the theory behind this work in an earlier post you can […]
Simulation and Cultural Compression
By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) Throughout medical school, students learn an inconceivable amount of new knowledge around pathophysiology and treatment of medical conditions. A parallel and powerful cultural learning process simultaneously takes place. Eventually, medical students […]
Embracing Messiness in Medicine, Research, and Ourselves
By Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) To begin to appreciate biomedicine as its own culture, we must appreciate alternate ways of knowing. As individuals we become indoctrinated into either biomedicine or the social sciences and we are […]