Hacking Medical Education

Today, Thursday 9th of July 2015, I have the opportunity to speak to Australia’s medical students at The AMSA National Convention Melbourne 2015 about ‘Hacking Medical Education’. This post contains the resources for the talk. The talk is dedicated to the memory of Dr John Hinds, who tragically died last weekend. The simplest advice one can give to any medical student is “Be like that guy – Dr John Hinds“. Ride on, John. What do I mean by Hacking Medical Education? Hacking means many things – all of which apply to this talk to some extent (especially the latter): “gaining unauthorised access to data in a system…” “cut with rough or heavy blows” “to modify or write… in a skillful or clever way” By medical education, I don’t only mean getting through medical school, but also (and more importantly) our lifelong path of learning in medicine. HACK #1 Learn from Osler! Becoming an Oslerphile The Master Work is Work (unfortunately there are no shortcuts to learning!) “Medicine is learned at the bedside… the patient is our first, last and only true teacher” a lesson from Osler via The Breakfast Club‘s Tim Koelmeyer The key to learning is work, the key to work is to love it – have fun, see the comedic side of life and cultivate your inner Egerton Y. Davis! HACK #2 Discover the hidden curriculum! There are three at least three ‘hidden curricula': the unintended things you...
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