{"id":43926,"date":"2019-01-22T12:25:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T11:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=43926"},"modified":"2019-01-22T12:25:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T11:25:55","slug":"kieran-walsh-taking-my-own-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/01\/22\/kieran-walsh-taking-my-own-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Kieran Walsh: Taking my own medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Influenza is a serious illness and so we need to do all that we can to treat and prevent it. Until recently, prevention has largely evolved around vaccination. But now there is growing interest in the role that face masks can play in prevention. I have read that masks can be effective in containing respiratory virus epidemics. [1]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/01\/kieran_walsh_mask.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43927\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/01\/kieran_walsh_mask.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a>But I have also read that face masks can be uncomfortable and so decided to put them to the test in a low technology, low cost simulation. I buy some face masks online and go for a walk around Warren Street. This is how I look.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do I feel? Like a right eejit. People are staring at me and not making much of an effort to hide their stares. Do they think I am trying to avoid flu or fumes or Francisella tularensis? Wearing a mask in London is still quite unusual\u2014I clearly stand out. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The next thing that I notice is that it is quite hard to breathe. I pull the mask away from my face to take a breath and realise that this will not help the mask to work. Is it easy to speak with the mask on? I ask an unsuspecting bystander the way to Tavistock Square\u2014he laughs and says something in French and keeps walking. My French is terrible without a mask, so I don\u2019t reply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The mask is irritating and a bit claustrophobic. All in all, it is an unpleasant experience. By the time I get to the BMJ office, I want to blow my nose, rub my cheek and scratch my chin. I look at my phone when I get there and realise that I have lasted a whole seven minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Yvonne Steinert, \u201cby participating in a role-play, medical students or residents can discover their own feelings about a particular situation and gain insight into the patient\u2019s presenting problems or life situation.\u201d [2] For the investment of \u00a38 and 8 minutes, I feel that I have learned a fair bit. More than several hours reading systematic reviews. There might be something to this idea of taking my own medicine. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Simulated role play can be expensive but there is no real reason for this always to be the case. The costs come from physical spaces, hardware and software. There are also people costs\u2014such as those of educators, learners, and patients or actors. But all of these aren\u2019t always necessary. The advent of fully immersive virtual reality means that quite soon many won\u2019t be necessary at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the meantime, as teachers and learners, we can exploit everything that simulation can give us. This includes unlimited practice, a healthy learning environment, safer learning and safer care, better communication and clinical skills, team-based learning, and learning that is deeply experiential.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Simulation can also happen online. How far away are we from a real time interaction with a virtual patient involving a virtual team and in a fully immersive virtual environment?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Kieran Walsh<\/strong>\u00a0is clinical director of BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice. He is responsible for the editorial quality of both products. He has worked in the past as a hospital doctor\u2014specialising in care of the elderly medicine and neurology.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Competing interests:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kieran Walsh works for BMJ which produces interactive and multimedia online learning resources on infectious and non-infectious diseases. \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>References:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Jefferson\u00a0T, Del Mar CB, Dooley L, Ferroni E, Al-Ansary LA, Bawazeer GA, van Driel ML, Nair S, Jones MA, Thorning S, Conly JM. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/21735402\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Physical\u00a0interventions\u00a0to\u00a0interrupt\u00a0or\u00a0reduce\u00a0the\u00a0spread\u00a0of\u00a0respiratory\u00a0viruses.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011 Jul 6;(7):CD006207.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Steinert Y. \u00a0Twelve tips for using role-plays in clinical teaching. \u00a0Med Teach Jan 1993, Vol. 15, No. 4: 283\u2013291.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Influenza is a serious illness and so we need to do all that we can to treat and prevent it. 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