Internist and endocrinologist. (Qualitative) Education researcher: workplace learning, complexity, and clinical humanism. Active classical musician.
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1 Jul 2024
After spending five years preparing to prescribe IV fluids, senior students felt unprepared to do so. Contradictions, overlaps, and gaps within the curriculum introduced extraneous complexity. Confusion and apprehension resulted.
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1 Jul 2024
Institutions used metaphors of heroism to celebrate medical graduates whilst the graduates identified themselves as incapable, vulnerable and fearful because the institutions had not taught them to practise. asmepublications.onlinelibra…
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1 Jul 2024
UK students becoming doctors were unready for safe practice during COVID. Despite copious teaching and exams, inexperience of practice can cause paralysing fear. More supported experience could make students useful members of stretched clinical teams and safer graduates
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14 May 2023
Elsevier is losing editors
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20 Oct 2022
The Tories’ green course of action would be to recycle existing prime-ministers, who could then re-resign rather than expend carbon on wrecking Britain in new ways.
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20 Oct 2022
Thank you! I am going to go look up Tim's sketch (do you know where to find it?). Maybe it should be inverted! I organised it this way based on my perception of how common the various theories are, but I completely get grand theories as overarching.
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30 Aug 2022
OBE: recycled repeatedly for >50 years. Is it really the future? #AMEE2022 Atomising doctors into measurable learning outcomes cannot produce caring and capable doctors but does dehumanise and disillusion them. See this critique. Thoughts?
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17 Feb 2022
📌Fantastic opportunity to join the Care Under Pressure team! 2 posts: Research Associate, and Research Fellow. 2 years. Excellent opportunity to apply realist research to a NHS priority issue! Application closing date: 15th March 2022. tinyurl.com/yc6xtbnw
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11 Jan 2022
Wise clinicians help students learn from patients by:
o Being supportive
o Ensuring they participate
o Giving slightly more responsibility than they expect with slightly more independence than they want
o Trapping errors before harm ensues
Helping students reflect on experience
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19 Dec 2021
"Contexts in which doctors learn to care for patients must be the contexts where doctors balance real benefit and harm. Education research within this complexity is in its infancy." Call for medical education research to 'get real' published in December issue of Medical Teacher
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Tim Dornan retweeted
9 Dec 2021
So excited to be published in @Lacunae_Journal with @drgkearney @DrHelenReid & @ProfTimD Our piece is entitled, ‘The Case for Lacan in Medical Education’ @QUBMedEd Thanks to @DrEveWatson and @appi1appi for the opportunity 😊 #psychoanalysis #MedEd #Lacan
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27 Aug 2021
Doctors’ complex mix of attributes provides the human touch, which makes healthcare greater than a series of ‘correct’ actions. Patients & doctors will be mutually safer when we return to educating doctors to respond wisely to complexity, rather than just in assessable ways.
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2 Jun 2021
Interprofessional knotworking transcends boundaries between professions, allowing lambs rather than wolves to remove the boundaries that bedevil interprofessional education.
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2 Jun 2021
Should we sanction interprofessional education?
A word of caution - 'sanctioning interprofessional learning is unlikely, alone, to be sufficient. Trusting in its sufficiency could cause disabling contradictions'
🔓Open Access Commentary available here 👇
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7 Feb 2021
Pedagogy is 'a teacher forming an educative relationship that creates a zone of proximal development where a student can learn to the best of their abilities.' A leading textbook has 28 times as many pages on assessment as pedagogy. Help us reverse that ratio for future editions.
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28 Dec 2020
Glad your inner Thespian has had its big moment but don’t let it go to your head
Tim Dornan retweeted
19 Dec 2020
"Whilst it is tempting to abandon workplace education when students are numerous and clinicians are busy, pandemic conditions encouraged us to use good learning opportunities creatively" #meded
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Tim Dornan retweeted
12 Nov 2020
“Competent but unprepared new graduates are sitting ducks for psychosocial harm”
Training and testing students off the job does not alone ensure patient safety. We need to do better.
Our editorial, published today in @bmj_latest explores this and more👇🏼
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12 Nov 2020
Training & testing med students off the job CANNOT alone ensure patient safety. It CAN ensure a baptism of fire from which new doctors (& patients) don't recover. Only acclimatising students into practice, supportively, will ensure we have enough good doctors.
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14 Oct 2020
Unlike decontextualised problems that medical schools teach and test, it is the social context of practice that challenges new doctors most. See: A pedagogy of uncertainty: opening up fissures in the competence paradigm. ASME paper no 34. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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