Journal club for June and July 2010

This is another platform for the fellow level, there is a regular meeting organised by the team of CVT anaesthesia, and there are journal club, Morbidity & mortality conference, and HA topic. One member of the asked me whether or not she can put the lists of the journal they have read here, so that they would know what had been discussed at the conference. Here are the lists for the month of June and July for this 2010 academic year.

1. (Wed 9) Anesthesia for patients with pulmonary hypertension
2. (Wed 16) Protecting the Brain During Aortic Surgery: An Enduring Debate With Unanswered Questions
3. (Wed 23) An Entirely Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter–Defibrillator

For the month of July 2010:

1. (Wed 14) Lumbar Cerebrospinal Fluid Drainage for Thoracoabdominal Aortic Surgery: Rationale and Practical Considerations for Management
2. (Wed 21) Neurological Damage Related to Cardiac Surgery

Anaesthesia Education (SWOT analysis)

There was a departmental wide conference organised yesterday (2010-07-27) to learn about ourselves, how we are, where we really stand, and what we are going to be for the next four years, in order to give a momentum to move forward. Strength-Weakness-Oppertunity-Threat analysis was aimed in four major areas: service, government, education and research.

Education in our department of Anesthesiology has some weaknesses as well as strengths, however, we are committed to improve ourselves to serve our dear customers; medical students, residents and fellows, and anaesthesia nurse students, at the best quality learning; education and training they should deserve during the time they spend their time with us.

For medical students; the curriculum has just been changed for 2 years, so there might be a minor change for that, but the anxiety level among them will be in our minds to look for.

For residents and fellows; there may be more short courses organised for them, more specialty training courses, we will look for the future trend in our specialty for the Kingdom as well.

The earlier we change, the better quality of education we should get, hopefully.

How we learn

From today edition of Bangkokpost (2553-07-13) in the education section, there is a very interesting and important Quote of the week by William Glasser. It says:

"We learn
10% of what we read;
20% of what we hear;
30% of what we see;
50% of what we both hear and see;
70% of what is discussed;
80% of what we experience personally; and
95% of what we teach to someone else"

Therefore, our beloved medical students should be encouraged to speak out and actively participate in activities assigned for them, such as bed side teaching, problem based learning, and even team based learning.