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Today I was in the dining room of the hospital where I often take my mum to have meals while she is undergoing rehabilitation. Today, being a Saturday, the dining room was a little busier than during the weekdays. While I was feeding mum, I heard the woman at the next table talking about Vivian [ ]
Source: Chen D, Priest K. Pimping: A tradition of gendered disempowerment. BMC Medical Education. 2019;19. doi:10.1186/s12909-019-1761-1 I had not heard of this term prior to yesterday, and I was curious what it meant. Pimping was identified in Indah’s autoethnography as one of the barriers to dialogic teaching. Chen and Priest use pimping as a synonym for quizzing. It is frequently described as […
I read this paper because it was cited in the Feedback Myths paper. I was reading this paper because it gives us some idea about how feedback influences professional identity formation. It’s a long paper – 26 pages of pretty solid text. They conducted their study at what I’d consider a very prestigious hospital. The paper highlighted the role of informal feedback on professional identity…
I discovered this morning that highlights that you put in your kindle get stored in the cloud. This led me to discover this quote from the dystopian novel The Hunger Games that I had highlighted some years ago: Since almost no one can afford doctors, apothecaries are our healers. Katniss Everdeen The idea of a [ ]
I was doing a bit of reflection on Saturday afternoon and was curious about how my Malaysian family ended up in Australia before the end of the White Australia policy. As I searched through the National Archives, I came across this photo from 1959👇. The description is: Fourteen senior boys at the Northcote High School in [ ]
The way you communicate with the people that you take care of is by talking and by getting to know them. You could be the most skilled person with your hands — and there are fields for which that is incredibly important — but if you can’t establish a connection with someone, and know them [ ]
During my visit to China in January 2026 for the APMEC conference, I had the opportunity to connect with Michael Krasner—a leader in mindfulness and physician wellbeing. Our conversation turned to potential speakers for a psychotherapy conference under RANZCP auspices organised by a classmate. Michael mentioned his acquaintance with Richard Ryan, co-founder of Self-Determination Theory [ ]
Before we start a session together I’ll usually reach out to ask you:“What’s your learning objective?” I do this so that when you work with me, you ve got some concrete plans or ideas and to maximise your learning. I do hope you’ve thought about it—even briefly—because your answer shapes how I support you. So if [ ]
An interesting quantitative article that s now over 15 years old. I found it was referred to in another article on Feedback-seeking behaviours. My thoughts What is feedback monitoring? This is how they measured it: Frequency of feedback monitoring (6) How often do you try to read the behavior of your clinical supervisor to find out [ ]
This is a social science experiemental paper. They randomised participants to either watch a video (of an actual event) or read a transcript (of an actual event). These were the instructions given: “Sometimes, what you see in a video or read in text isn’t exactlywhat occurred in real life. During the survey, we will therefore [ ]