Things I think about in the shower
- How much can you learn on your own, and how much do you need a teacher or coach for.
- What taxonomy can we use to think about what you can, and what you cannot learn without a teacher or coach.
- How do we think about ‘just-in-time’ and ‘foundational’ material, knowing that foundational usually isn’t (it is the moral hazard of teachers and institutions — or their business model).
- There is a literature on ‘transference’ of domain knowledge. But my suspicion is that much knowledge about ‘how hospitals or GPs work’ transfers well. There is a lot of redundancy.
- Why are we so obsessed with lengthening training, and making students do lots of detours.
- Sage on the stage, or Hollywood, in terms of production values and strategy
- The inefficiencies of our medical teaching are now borne by our students’ wallets.
- Why did anybody ever think postgraduate training had much to do with undergraduate medical education.
- Strict competency frameworks will destroy medical schools’ business models
- There should be more than ten things to think about.