KevinMD October 3, 2024
Teaching is a blast! As an attending, I love to employ offbeat methods, with absurdity and humor, at times skirting the edge of political incorrectness, all for the purpose of enhancing one’s medical education.
Educating medical students and residents by practicing physicians is a tried-and-true element of medical education, a practice dating back through the ages, where those without formal education in the art of teaching provided instruction. This tradition continues in medical education today, where the majority of teaching—including formal lectures—is carried out by the doctors within and outside of the institution, as well as by residents and even the medical students themselves. I certainly had no formal training in didactics or the art of oration. We sort of...
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