Science doesn't really interest me, and I was never very good at it anyway.
When I was shadowing a surgical fellow as part of paired learning, I spent an afternoon in theatres observing eye surgery performed by the fellow, under the supervision of the consultant. I was so envious of how much learning was going on. How the surgeon was challenged but also supported, and how much investment there was in his learning. This is someone who was really advanced in his career, who had done a long degree, years and years of training and was applying for consultant posts, but still was learning all the time.
I left theatres wishing that I had that opportunity, wishing that I still had a teacher and that I was still learning so much. All of a sudden I panicked I was in the wrong job, that I should be in a job where I'm not "doing" all the time, but in a job where i'm learning continuously.
A few months later, I read this fantastic blog describing a shift in expectations of junior doctors, how some people think they can only learn in a lecture theatre, and they can't learn rewriting a drug chart or re-doing a task they've done thousands of times before.
This made me think of everything I've learnt by doing. I'm lucky to be in a role where all day I'm being challenged to try new things and given the opportunities to develop myself whilst being supported, but perhaps not in a traditional "teaching" style or environment.
Whilst I was thinking about this, I got this tweet:
I am developing my skills and knowledge all the time, but I'm not thinking about it or even acknowledging it.
So much so that when I went into theatres with my colleague, I thought he was the only one learning.
When I was shadowing a surgical fellow as part of paired learning, I spent an afternoon in theatres observing eye surgery performed by the fellow, under the supervision of the consultant. I was so envious of how much learning was going on. How the surgeon was challenged but also supported, and how much investment there was in his learning. This is someone who was really advanced in his career, who had done a long degree, years and years of training and was applying for consultant posts, but still was learning all the time.
I left theatres wishing that I had that opportunity, wishing that I still had a teacher and that I was still learning so much. All of a sudden I panicked I was in the wrong job, that I should be in a job where I'm not "doing" all the time, but in a job where i'm learning continuously.
A few months later, I read this fantastic blog describing a shift in expectations of junior doctors, how some people think they can only learn in a lecture theatre, and they can't learn rewriting a drug chart or re-doing a task they've done thousands of times before.
This made me think of everything I've learnt by doing. I'm lucky to be in a role where all day I'm being challenged to try new things and given the opportunities to develop myself whilst being supported, but perhaps not in a traditional "teaching" style or environment.
Whilst I was thinking about this, I got this tweet:
@LydiaBenedetta @ian_wac @MaryHobin day you stop learning, time to a) stop lying to yourself or b) get another job
— Alex Borg (@AlexanderDBorg) July 14, 2014
I am developing my skills and knowledge all the time, but I'm not thinking about it or even acknowledging it.
So much so that when I went into theatres with my colleague, I thought he was the only one learning.
