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.

Another useful link

In order to gather important information regarding the specialty of Anaesthesia, the BMJ, British Medical Journal, has been an undispensible source of essential and up-to-date data and knowledge. Under the useful collections in www.bmj.com, you can have important topic in the patient care under anaesthesia specialty especially the pain management and other related topics.

While the collections of intensive care have four major sub-headings, mechanical ventilation, and intensive care for neonate, paediatric and adult patient separately.

Hope that you will get up to today medicine for safety of our patients from this wonderful and useful link, click at the topic for the link.

A very useful link for medical student

When I search the internet for more informations about how medical students will be taught in anaesthesia rotation, I learn that in the USA like our department, they are rotated to the department for two weeks.

While many departments show the curriculum and evaluation form, I ran across the department of anesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin which offers three case descriptions in the topics of acute pain management, paediatric anaesthesia, and emergency anaesthesia with the emphasis on haemodynamic monitoring and inotropes. Not only the case descriptions which you should have tried to learn, but the department also have two handouts for medical students in the topics of paediatric anaesthesia and local anaesthetics and regional anaesthesia.

Have a look at the link and try to figure out the cases by clink at the topic above.

Medical education: Lifelong learning

We were advised to join the 11th Thai medical education congress, held at Chulalongkorn University on 27-29 March, and it had covered many interesting subjects from adding public health into med student curriculum, and how to teach that topics.

There were also workshop/ discussion about the making OSCE, however, one thing that we have agreed with and we have done is "Lifelong Learning". Since 2009 we have formed the group of teachers to three each to look after 10 upto 12 students in two week slot. We knew that we cannot let them know all the department of Anesthesiology would be, we hope that they can find their way out, since we have just shown them small windows of this busy department. The aim of preoperative evaluation and preparation is also an example of lifelong learning, because the patient who need anaesthetics can be anywhere in the hospital, we hope that our students have understood this goal and can apply our anaesthetist's way of thinking to the patient care process.

Photo of the gang

These are photo taken from the Brussels trip that the ICU gang went, on the way we passes Flugaphen Frankfurt am Main, catched ICE to Koln, and stopped in Paris.

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, the Gang's all here

We, a small family and the gang of eight, had gone to Bruxelles to attend the 30th Annual Congress of International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. We gained some new knowledge about patient care such as fluid management, complications in abdominal patients, kidney injury, fluid responsiveness, sepsis and septic shock, and much more. I think approximate half of the invited speakers at the congress are actually anaesthetists which we are so proud. The new knowledge would be definitely beneficial to our patients and to our beloved medical students. Here is a sample of photo taken there which I have to credit to Max, the newest member of our gang.

More photo are to come, having problems with the wifi at home.

Examination MCQ

Finally, the MCQ for our medical students for this academic year have been finalised, after spending a whole day just to create new 10 MCQ, beleive it or not. However, we would love to thank those who submit some new ideas for this year exam pool. Work hard again next year somewhere around happy new year.