Doc Xology’s maxims
After almost 25 years of practise it all boils down to this: Learning Simple before complex Find the principle behind the instance Learn to ask ‘why’, ‘when’ and ‘what… Read more »
Disentangling The History
Junior doctors often struggle to develop a management plan when assessing patients with a convoluted history or an unrecognisable constellation of symptoms and signs. It is particularly complicated when patients… Read more »
Bridging The Divide
Reproduced with kind permission from Placebo January 2011 Edition. Bridging the divide Observing medical students today, it is interesting to watch them still struggle with the same difficulties as… Read more »
The Learning Conversation
Introduction The Learning Conversation is a teaching technique based on Pask and Scott’s work on Conversation Theory to support student-centred learning. It is an interactive and iterative process stemming from… Read more »
Antibiotics
Antibiotics are commonly prescribed medications in the acute setting It is useful to commit to memory the regimes for common infections e.g. pneumonia, urinary tract infections and cellulitis For more… Read more »
Stop forgetting. Start remembering
Here are ways of turbo-boosting your learning efforts Avoid cognitive overload Human memory can accomodate no more than eight new facts (and usually much less) in any one learning session…. Read more »
Practical tips in Clinical Sonography
Tricks of the trade that turn your ok images into amazing images Small movements – If you get lost, STOP & THINK about the anatomy, probe orientation and angles before… Read more »
The Parable of the Young Clinician
Young Clinician: What must I do to become a good clinician? Older Clinician: Study hard. Young Clinician: Yes. I know that already! But what does THAT mean? Older Clinician: Read widely. Apply… Read more »
Is It An Emergency?
For those unfamiliar to Acute Medicine, the decision whether a patient requires hospital admission sometimes can be a confusing and vexing one. There are obvious situations. We tend to think… Read more »
Simulation Pre-Briefing Script
SET Intro Hello Sophie, My name is Derek and I am going to be your sim instructor for this session. Why You may already have had some experience with simulation… Read more »
Playing the Simulation Game
Introduction Simulation is becoming a popular education modality attracting an increasing amount of research and discussion. Fidelity is a heavily debated subject which involves a crafted combination of… Read more »