Looks like we don't have to go into the physical world to experience
a hostile environment - our virtual evidence-based-health world is
making a pretty robust attempt at creating a simulation :-)
Andrew
> There is a saying which goes:
>
> Those who can, do.
> Those who can't, teach.
> Those who can't teach, teach teachers.
>
> At first reading, your request in itself would appear to be (anedotal)
> evidence in support of the saying.
>
> However, the saying continues:
>
> Those who can't teach teachers become management consultants.
>
> Which begs the question "is advocating evidence-based medicine a form
> of management consulting?" It is certainly a NICE form of
> cost-containment.
>
> Whatever the answer, one approach would be to start by asking the
> audience by identifying their preconceptions as to what evidence-based
> medicine is, what it is about, and how they think it affects their
> everyday practice, if indeed it does have an effect.
>
> As you believe you can predict what they will say, you will know all
> the answers. If not, you can select the points that you know you can
> answer and identify potential surces for answers to the other
> questions. Or you could do the complete management consultant bit and
> ask the audience where they think they might obtain the answers ...
>
> Sincerely.
>
> Dr. John Barclay
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> From: K.Hopayian[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: mercredi 21 mars 2001 11:34
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Teaching in hostile territory
>
> I am booked to give an introductory talk to two groups of general
> practitioners in this part of England, East Anglia. The first is a
> group of GPs attending an annual refresher course, the second a group
> of trainers and their trainees (called registrars in England). Both
> groups contain individuals hostile to EBM (though none have had direct
> exposure, I suspect).
>
> My plan is to use *educational aikido* - that is, let them attack and
> I will use their own force or weight to floor them. I believe I can
> predict what they will say and so have some examples to give to
> illustrate that EBM is not the monster they believe and that it can
> help answer questions that arise in general practice.
>
> I have never done this before so I wonder if any of you have
> experience I could benefit from? -- Best wishes, Kev Hopayian GP,
> Leiston, Suffolk, UK Web site: http://www.suffolk-maag.ac.uk/kevhop
Andrew Booth BA MSc Dip Lib ALA
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