Medical School Lecture Template
Ok, so you’re a newly qualified specialist and you’re about to give your first lecture at medical school.
Where to begin?
First, you must realize that you are not alone, you do not have to reinvent the wheel. Now is a chance to stand on the shoulders of the giants that have gone before you. So, why not do what all the other heroic teachers have done before you?
Follow the same path.
The video below, created by medical students from the Washington University 2014 second-year class, echoes Joseph Campbell and his ideas on the universiality of the Hero’s journey in mythology. According to Joseph, at the core of myths across cultures is the ‘monomyth‘:
“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.
Joseph Campbell, from The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)
In, other words, medical school lectures — like myths and legends — are the same old thing rehashed over and over again…
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