the future of medical education

The Future ofMEDICAL EDUCATION

Chris Nickson FACEM FCICMIntensivist, The Alfred ICU

Financial Conflicts of InterestNO

PREDICTION is difficult… especially about the FUTURE

Photo by Paul Ehrenfest from WikimediaNiels Bohr

The TraditionalPARADIGM

External Shocks lead to change

“Do not worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”Alan Kay

Make FOAM mainstreamLearn how to learnBring it all to the bedsideConcentrate on competencyCreate Clinician-Educators

#1Make FOAM mainstream

FREEOPENACCESSMEDUCATION

#FOAMed

Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere

316Is FOAM already mainstream?

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/resources/emergency-medicine-blogs/

LITFL is still growing…

We need to pop the

filter bubble

#2Learn how to

learn

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn”Albert Einstein

CAVEAT EMPTO

RThink Critically

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/07/information-overload/

FILTER FAILUREInformation overload does not exist

http://icenetblog.royalcollege.ca/2015/10/02/personal-learning-networks-a-hack-to-maintain-competence/

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Tacit knowledge

sharing

That’s just in time…

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Chris Hadfield

Apply lessons fromcognitive science

Use Retrieval Practice and take advantage of the Test Effect

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http://lifeinthefastlane.com/learning-by-spaced-repetition/

Remember using Spaced Repetition

Use Generation to prime your mind

Use Elaboration to add layers

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Engage in ReflectionThree Spheres by MC Escher

You need CalibrationPhoto by Ken FUNAKOSHI https://www.flickr.com/photos/trektrack/6856487131/

Interleaveyour

practice

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rereadinghighlightingsummarising

AVOID:

#3Bring new ways to the bedside

Can medicine learnt on the Web?

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Nothing replaces the

bedside mentor

The patient at the centre

Flip the Classroom

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Simulate!

3D Printing

#4Make competency (not time) matter

The end of the tea bag?

Meaningful assessment

Collective Competence

#5Create

Clinician Educators

Participates in clinical practice

Consults on education issues

Simon Carley

apply theory to education practice

Engages in education

scholarshipVictoria Brazil

James Rippey

http://icenetblog.royalcollege.ca/

FINAL WORDS

Make FOAM mainstreamLearn how to learnBring it all to the bedsideConcentrate on competencyCreate Clinician-Educators

http://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/04/laws-for-the-navigation-of-life/

The 22nd of Peter Safar’s Laws for the Navigation of Life

It is up to us to save the

world!