“The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.” ― Adam Gopnik Ran across this post from 2011 in one of my searches for something...I can't recall what. It discusses the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) model for training - a way to ensure that training effectiveness is maximized by laying …
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Following Up on Follow-up
For someone who styles himself a grammar nerd, I have been way too lax at resolving this one... follow-up - noun for the act of following up. follow up - the transitive verb followup - exists only in the multiverse, where they don't speak so good.... All this according to the Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary …
We don’t need no education…
In one of the courses for my degree in Instructional Design, Development & Evaluation, our Professor, Phil Doughty, wouldn't let us use the word "need." And he was serious. We got called out, all semester, for using that word. We were forced to restate our point without using the word "need." It was a moderately …
Getting Your Educational Innovations “Out There”
I hear it frequently from colleagues and friends... I'm just not a research-y person. I see patients and teach, I don't have time to write up articles for journals...Besides, I'm not good at that stuff... Perhaps it is the fault of the increasing demands of our clinical work, the difficulty in recruiting academic faculty, concern …
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Osler on the nature of medicine
I appreciate and understand this quote more as I go on... Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. — Sir William Osler
Effective teaching – comparing two frameworks
Saw an interesting journal article recently on the the elements of instructional sessions that make them more effective. I was struck that Dr. Mayer (a prolific educational psychology researcher) listed Nine Evidence-based Principles for the Science of Instruction. Those in the instructional design fields will also be familiar with Robert Gagne's "Nine Events of Instruction". …
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Stuck at Level 2 – Kirkpatrick Levels of Training Evaluation and EBM Teaching
The instructional design world, focused as it is on training in business, has done a better job of defining educational outcomes, in my opinion, than we in medicine have. In medicine, we seem wedded to a clinical trial mentality. Not really in terms of study design - the randomized controlled trial is just as much …
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