The saying in our medical school is:
Those that can, practise.
Those that can't, teach.
Those that can't teach,
are doomed, forever only to practise.
From a teacher, a teacher of teachers,
and one that believes in the power of a comma!
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Prof. A.L. van Gelder FRCP (London)
Head, Dept. of Internal Medicine
University of Pretoria and the
Pretoria Academic Hospital
Tel 012 354-2287, Fax 012 329-1327
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"A.Booth" wrote:
>
> 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
> > ----------
> > 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
> Director of Information Resources and
> Senior Lecturer - Evidence Based Healthcare Information.
> School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR)
> Regent Court
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> S1 4DA
> Tel: 0114 222 5420 or 5214 Fax: 0114 272 4095
> The author of Netting the Evidence:
> http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/netting.html
> and Trawling the Net:
> http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scharr/ir/trawling.html
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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