Karthik Ponnappan Thirumurugan
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I think as trainers , we are now clearly in a world where the learners have very limited attention span. Technology can enhance, but only if we can use it to both entertain and educate.
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Separate teams / managers are responsible for the training part and the assessment in real world part. This needs to be bridged by active communication between course trainers and daily managers.
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Clear, modern ideas, presented by teachers who clearly know what we need, this is a course that is a learning point in itself. The emphasis has been on making me think, and that has truly engaged me. I hope to use these ideas, and try to work on my teaching approach in the future.
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If people want to be teachers, the basic idea is to remain open and willing to learn. That is what we would expect from the learner, and that is the standard we should set. The scientific model is so difficult to use in everyday life, for it could say that things we have been doing forever don't make any difference. In operating theaters, head cover has not...
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We can lean on analogies, to help drive home what we want to emphasize. The analogy , like you said, is good as an introduction to a complex idea, to a early learner. For more experienced learners though, it may feel reductive. Titrating the teaching to the audience is key for analogies to work.
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Being told is the medicine has been always done . Its a horrible way to teach one of the most complex subjects in the world. Being taught to think, is something I haven't genuinely experienced, and I have been a student of medicine at various levels for 15 years. I think intensive care and anaesthesia have now generally evolved to having better teachers, but...
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I take online classes for nursing professionals. I try to make it interactive, its not always possible. Engaging learners by pre course tests, and reinforcing the test questions with max errors is an example of spaced learning. The learners get to see the same problem through different eyes.
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Karthik Ponnappan Thirumurugan made a comment
I have made major errors during my early career during arterial catheterization. It taught me to treat every procedure with equal gravity, because the complications can be devastating for patients. Checklists, double checks with colleagues, and a fierce determination to err on the side of safety is what I have learnt the hard way.
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It is difficult to establish a source for learning in the best of times. I think we are all a confluence of the incredibly diverse set of experiences we have been through, so learning is every day and moment.
