Rekindling the Joy of Medicine – thoughts after Dr. Kelley Skeff ’ s Grand Rounds

Yesterday, we had the treat of hosting Dr. Kelley Skeff for our 7th Research and Innovation in Medical Education Week at UAB.  He gave a brilliant Grand Rounds that I hope everyone will get a chance to hear.  He talked about the Joy of Medicine and the threats to that Joy. Readers of this blog would find much of his talk familiar.  Of course he told the story extremely well. He focused on why we should be joyful in medicine, and then proceeded to talk about the artificial barriers to our joy.  He made us think. Kelley has dedicated his career to teaching medicine and teaching the teachers how to teach better.  I am one of his proteges. One great expertise he has involves taping educational interactions and showing us what is going wrong and how we can improve. He highlighted his recent passion, the chronology of present illness. He opined that too many presentations ramble and confuse.  Poor presentations can obfuscate the patient’s problems.  He argues for presentations that are more clear and start at the beginning, not yesterday only. He talk about the problems in practice and particular in medical education.  He shared insights from several authors, two of whom I would like to highlight. First he referred to Daniel Pink’s important book Drive. Here is what I wrote while reading the book – What @danielpink teaches us about medicine Then he mentioned an author of whom I was unfamiliar Simon Sinek.  So today I found his great TeD Talk Start with wh...
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