{"id":37412,"date":"2016-09-16T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=37412"},"modified":"2016-09-16T20:03:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T19:03:55","slug":"jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-lecturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2016\/09\/16\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-lecturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Lecturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32935\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"jeffrey_aronson\" width=\"92\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a>A lecture of the type that I am used to giving is defined in the <em>Oxford English Dictionary<\/em> as \u201ca discourse given before an audience upon a given subject, usually for the purpose of instruction\u201d, although I always keep in mind the BBC\u2019s mission statement, originally formulated by John Reith, their first Director\u2013General, \u201cto inform, educate, and entertain\u201d, particularly the last of these. This rubric is still to be found in the BBC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/553233\/Draft_Charter_Web_Accessible.pdf\">latest draft charter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The IndoEuropean root LEG meant to gather or set in order. Anything thus eclectically gathered was ready to be read or spoken<!--more-->, in some dialect, perhaps to a select audience of intellectuals. The Greek derivative \u03bb\u1f73\u03b3\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd meant to speak or recount and the Latin legere (supine lectum) meant to collect, take away or steal, choose, read or peruse, recite, or read about. You may read a lecture from a lectern, but you\u2019re better to narrate it freely helped by no more than a few notes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16562311\">rather than from a prepared text<\/a>, boringly delivered. Lecturers can use slides as notes, but only to prompt them, not to be read out from the screen. The lexicon is full of \u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03b9, the words from which you compose your text, and if you are an excellent lecturer you may become a legend, someone everyone talks about.<\/p>\n<p>In this year\u2019s course on teaching evidence based medicine, held by Oxford\u2019s Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, I gave a lecture on how to give a lecture, with entertainment as the main purpose. I used as my main narrative structure a poem by Rudyard Kipling:<\/p>\n<p>I keep six honest serving-men<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(They taught me all I knew);<br \/>\nTheir names are What and Why and When<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And How and Where and Who.<\/p>\n<p>Not Kipling\u2019s greatest poem, but it gave me a handle for discussing the basis of giving a lecture, starting with when and where and going on with who, why, what, and how. Discussing the different circumstances in which medical scientists might be called upon to give different types of lecture, I invoked Jaques\u2019s famous speech from <em>As You Like It<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>All the world\u2019s a stage<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And all the men and women merely players;<br \/>\nThey have their exits and their entrances,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And one man in his time plays many parts,<br \/>\nHis acts being seven ages.<\/p>\n<p>This reminds us firstly that lecturing is a performance. Then, while Jaques takes us from infancy to senescence, I had a more limited life span in mind. Here are my seven ages:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>As an infant researcher, you will first present your research data to the members of your department, who will be sympathetic and helpful.<\/li>\n<li>Next comes a presentation of the same data to a wider audience, like the Clinical Pharmacology Colloquium, a group of 20 or so researchers from departments in a few different universities; they will be sympathetic but critical.<\/li>\n<li>Then a presentation to your learned society, in my case the British Pharmacological Society, where the senior members, sympathetic or not, will subject you to a rigorous examination before, sometimes grudgingly, depending on how well you perform, allowing you to have your abstract published in the society\u2019s journal.<\/li>\n<li>If you are successful, the next stage is an invited presentation at a symposium . . .<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0. . . and then an invitation to organise a symposium of your own.<\/li>\n<li>Later, when everyone knows that you have run out of research ideas, they ask you to sum up at the end of the conference . . .<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0. . . and finally, the senescent lecturer is asked to give a lecture on how to give a lecture (picture).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Well, I hope they enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-37414 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/09\/aronson_lecture.png\" alt=\"aronson_lecture\" width=\"429\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/09\/aronson_lecture.png 429w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/09\/aronson_lecture-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The senescent lecturer discussing the importance of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.testandmeasurementtips.com\/new-articles\/the-inverse-square-law-and-radar\">inverse square law<\/a> when making yourself heard in the lecture theatre, while pointing out that reverberation helps and that the desk microphone is badly placed, being too far away from the speaker.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Jeffrey Aronson<\/strong> is a clinical pharmacologist, working in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford&#8217;s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is also president emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Competing interests:<\/strong>\u00a0None declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lecture of the type that I am used to giving is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as \u201ca discourse given before an audience upon a given subject, usually [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2016\/09\/16\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-lecturing\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5762],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jeff-aronsons-words"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . 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