by Anonymous | 23rd Mar 2021 | Education, Humanity
“And what skill will you be teaching?” “Guitar,” came the reply. “Great!” My enthusiasm was somewhat fake. In my experience the few surgeons who tried to teach guitar in five minutes, failed miserably. Depending on your experiences of guitars – or surgeons I will...
by Anonymous | 10th Nov 2020 | Education, Humanity
I met ‘Aunt Es’ when I was 18. I had heard all about her from my Dad. She had introduced him to the Lake District and to Swallows and Amazons, which he read to me the long, hot summer of 1976 when I broke my arm, aged 8. My dad adored his ‘Aunt Es’ who was not his...
by Anonymous | 26th Nov 2019 | Education
“This is the best course I have ever done.” “You have transformed the way I see education and the world.” “I have never met anyone like you.You are a true inspiration.” What do you say when you are told this? The first time I was flattered, tried to share the...
by Anonymous | 20th Aug 2019 | Education, Patient Stories
“We have a student with us today. Would you mind them taking a part in your care?” I can’t remember the exact words the first time or even subsequently, but I can remember how I felt. I was delighted, in the early 1990s to enable the education of a soon to be...
by Anonymous | 14th Jun 2019 | Education
This is the second of our posts this week looking at teaching, this time in the post graduate medical setting. This piece offers a challenging perspective of classsroom based education at postgraduate level, and suggests we change our terminology to reflect the...
