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Do we r...What role do residents play in healthcare?<br />Do we really need them? <br /><br />Please join the discussion!<br /><br />English: <br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75m2O2dzyU8<br /><br />French: <br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBlqnLq48t8ReleveEnSanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09994254121812889058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779260.post-26535489383866939392011-08-08T21:10:11.157-04:002011-08-08T21:10:11.157-04:00When I trained there was a terrible disconnect bet...When I trained there was a terrible disconnect between things that faculty knew were important but just could NOT communicate to students/housestaff/younger faculty in a meaningful way. They tried through didactic lectures, oh, did they. But to young physicians (I'm a pediatrician and trained in a huge children's hospital), the sexiness of medicine lay in the urgency of the now, which in pediatrics (and I suspect most other programs) was embodied by the sicker-than-sick kids upstairs, not by the lecturer, especially if he/she was trying to talk to us about development (yawn...) or the business (personal and cultural) of medicine (eyes...glazing). <br /><br />Only later did I realize how important these things were. I called them my "Sheeeit" moments. After I had a child and saw how much of my office time was spend talking about normal development. Sheeeit. After I realized I had no idea how to view my own finances, or understand what HMOs and capitation were. Sheeeit. After I realized that well child care WAS going to be my forte, not crafting brilliant checkouts and recounting endlessly how the kid on 4E crashed. Sheeeit. <br /><br />The only thing that our director did that came close was having a group of recent residency grads (who we all still knew) come back and tell us what they wished they'd listened to. <br /><br />That's what docs need to do with re to social media. Have young docs come to residencies and recount to current students and residents how to view social media with common sense. (This should be done for high schoolers and college students too, imo). These same young docs can also school older docs and faculty on both how to deal with social media with common sense and why it's pissing in the wind to "forbid" its use. The old men and women who are the culture of medicine can its own young people to teach them. Or they'll be in for their own "Sheeeit" moments.Jaylynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08379118594930365144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779260.post-57123437780216196542011-08-06T22:14:02.429-04:002011-08-06T22:14:02.429-04:00It may be a sad thing to admit, but I only have th...It may be a sad thing to admit, but I only have the vaguest idea of what a pager is. I'm showing my age here. I've glimpsed them on the belts of a few physicians, but that's it. I have absolutely no idea how to use one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779260.post-82523311984459542432011-08-04T20:48:13.097-04:002011-08-04T20:48:13.097-04:00medicine + military = iceberg slow!!medicine + military = iceberg slow!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779260.post-18201826662089351662011-08-04T19:17:18.993-04:002011-08-04T19:17:18.993-04:00You are so right about having to learn about how t...You are so right about having to learn about how things like social media work. I still find it shocking how many people think anonymous means they can say whatever they want without repercussions. I remember some kids in my class wrote some really unprofessional course evaluations using crude language, and were SHOCKED when they got personal emails reprimanding them from the administration. "But they were supposed to be anonymous evaluations!" they all cried.<br /><br />Folks, there is no such thing as anonymous, and you better act like it and get used to the ideaOMDGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17937425894428802591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779260.post-22830426661915069632011-08-04T19:16:16.542-04:002011-08-04T19:16:16.542-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.OMDGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17937425894428802591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779260.post-9255889969899800532011-08-04T14:07:18.631-04:002011-08-04T14:07:18.631-04:00It's hard to think of a way psychiatry could p...It's hard to think of a way psychiatry could participate in social media in a way that would preserve the fundamental confidentiality of the field -- i.e. there's a boundary between the personal life and professional identity of the physician in a very strict sense (i.e. an internist can chat breezily about his or her own kids with the patient; a psychiatrist's job is to bring the focus so much on the patient that nobody knows if we have kids or not. etc). So - not to lose perspective on that view. Not every specialty can cope similarly with social media.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779260.post-55554133493229640982011-08-04T13:08:13.143-04:002011-08-04T13:08:13.143-04:00Well said.
There can be an educational element in...Well said. <br />There can be an educational element involved, not only for patients, but also medical students and junior doctors. The honesty with which you wrote about your clinical experiences over the years, and others like you, gave me an insight as a medical student, but also, surprisingly supported me as a junior doctor. An example that comes to mind is a post you wrote when you anaesthetised a patient for transplant retrieval, and how you felt about. I read it as a medical student several years ago, thougt about it at the time, then it fell into the recesses of my mind. A few months ago, in the middle of the night, I had to transfer a patient for transplant retrieval to theatre, then provide the anasesthetic in the middle of the night. That post came back to me then, and supported me in the sense that I didn't feel alone, the emotions I felt others had felt, etc. I wouldn't have got that from textbook. Might have got that from literature. But the internet can provide an access that is unique. It's ok to share, as long as it is done responsibly. There is a lot of rubbish out there, but there are gems to be found. It's about how we use the net. Not whether we use it.Zoenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5779260.post-88952431783655864052011-08-04T04:10:24.138-04:002011-08-04T04:10:24.138-04:00You are so right, Dr. Au! Medicine is ridiculously...You are so right, Dr. Au! Medicine is ridiculously slow to fully embrace change. I think people just like to throw around words like "diversity" and "well-rounded" as part of a politically-correct checklist. And I love how they consider Asians over represented in medicine. Umm, relative to which other racial groups? If there's just too many of us in medicine, where are all the Asian American department chairs, division chiefs, and deans of medical schools?PrimaDeanAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00098409979438953951noreply@blogger.com