Collective Competence
Collective competence is a complementary concept to individual competence that is relevant in healthcare as patient care is dependent on teams and networks of individuals working together within a complex system
Category SMILE2
SMILE2 is a collection of pages featuring overviews of important and interesting topics relevant to clinical education, improving the performance of healthcare individuals and organisations, and improving the outcomes of patient care.
Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning
Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning seeks to explain the processes that take place in the minds of learners during meaningful learning from multimedia instruction
Cognitive Rigidity
Cognitive rigidity, or fixation, is holding onto initial explanations despite the subsequent accumulation of contrary evidence (Klein, 2011)
The trouble with mindfulness
Don’t get me wrong, mindful practice, self-reflective practice should all be encouraged. The trouble with mindfulness is when it’s prescribed as the sole solution to a cognitive error....
The trouble with M&Ms
George Douros discusses the trouble with M&Ms and how we can avoid the old cycle of "name/blame/shame/train".
The trouble with cognitive biases
Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of Pat Croskerry and metacognition but I do wonder whether the rest of the medical profession has become a bit fixated on cognitive biases.
Cognitive load theory
Cognitive load theory (CLT) is a theory of instructional design based on an experimentally derived model of cognitive architecture and focuses on the ease with which novel information is processed by working memory, which has limited capacity
Burnout
Burnout: a sustained response to chronic work stress with emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and perceived lack of personal accomplishment
Let’s talk about dying
Peter Saul, an Australian intensivist, presents a TEDx talk in which he tells of the crisis of death in the 21st century and implores us all to start talking about dying.
Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that?
Every doctor makes mistakes, and every doctor knows this. Yet the mantra of traditional medical culture is that doctors must be perfect. I think this culture is changing, but perhaps not fast enough.
ED Registrar’s Guide to Clinical Teaching
A guide for emergency medicine registrars and residents on how to be an effective clinical teacher.
A Letter to a Young Emergency Doctor
When I was starting out, I was told there were three types of doctors doing emergency medicine: missionaries, adrenaline junkies, and fools. I was all three...