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Billy Boland: Generation Y’s approach is a sensible strategy for resilience
I enjoyed reading Victoria Twigg’s piece on the training needs of Generation Y recently. It is obvious we need to think much more about what attracts people into medicine and […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Resistentialism
“Resistentialism is a philosophy of tragic grandeur. It … derives its name from its central thesis that Things (res) resist (résister) men. Philosophers have become excited at various times, says […]
Richard Smith: Impressions of Devi Shetty’s hospital city—bringing surgery to the masses
I’m standing with Devi Shetty, a cardiac thoracic surgeon in his surgical gear, between two paediatric intensive care units with around 40 cots. All the cots are full apart from […]
Mary E Black: Creating a path for organ donation
Every time the story of an organ donation is told, that path is more fully trodden […]
Desmond O’Neill: Going digital for global medical humanities
To those teaching and researching the medical humanities, major exhibitions of great art represent a wonderful opportunity for a focal illumination of how medicine and the arts interact. However, for […]
Richard Smith: Giving medical students patient contact through online consultation
Medical students arrive at medical school hungry to have contact with patients, but it can be unfair to unleash on patients students who know nothing of medicine and until yesterday […]
Matt Morgan: Medical assessment in the age of the robot
The ability for doctors to ask the right questions and deal with uncertainty is becoming more important than ever […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Multiculturalism: science, discourse, humanities
To recap. After C P Snow’s 1959 Rede Lecture “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution”, the Cambridge literary critic, F R Leavis, in his 1962 Richmond Lecture, “The Two […]
Kieran Walsh: What if everything you knew about medical education was wrong?
Learners have to be active. This is something that I have heard a lot and also said a lot in the years I have been involved medical education. The idea […]