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What Doctors Can Teach Us on Continuous Learning

Johnny Graber
June 14, 2018
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What Doctors Can Teach Us on Continuous Learning

Do you try to keep up with all the new frameworks, patterns and trends in IT? Good luck, it's an endless stream of things to learn. The good news: software development isn't the only profession with this problem. Doctors face the same challenges and must keep the safety of patients in mind while working as cost-effective as possible. With much higher stakes, it's no surprise that medicine is a highly regulated field with explicit rules on the lifelong training - rules that we can use as a source of inspiration for our training.

In this session we will look how doctors organise their continuing medical education, debunk some myths about learning and figure out how we can use our daily work as a jumpstart for improvement.

Johnny Graber

June 14, 2018
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  1. What Doctors Can Teach Us on Continuous Learning Johnny Graber

    @j_graber https://www.ImproveAndRepeat.com
  2. Legal Requirements for Doctors in Switzerland Art 40 MedBG on

    professional duties: They deepen, expand and improve their professional knowledge, skills and abilities in the interest of quality assurance through lifelong training.
  3. • Doctors must do continuous medical training Federal Law •

    80 Credits per year, 50 must be declared FMH / SIME • 5 credits per publication, max 10 credits / year Professional Society of Intensive Care
  4. To learn something, you need to spend 10,000 hours doing

    it. The 10,000 Hours Rule on deliberate practise master
  5. A 20 Hours Approach in 4 Simple Steps 1. Deconstruct

    the skill 2. Learn enough to self-correct 3. Remove practice barriers 4. Practice at least 20 hours Book: The First 20 Hours by Josh Kaufman
  6. sleep work all other things We work as many hours

    as we should sleep. Why do we think sleep deprivation is the only way to learn?
  7. How do doctors learn new procedures? Not by taking patients

    home to operate them on the kitchen table!
  8. Categories of Continued Training • Attending Events and conferences •

    Lecturing and teaching activities • Participating in a quality circle • Scientific publication • Poster presentation • Intervision / Supervision • Other training activities • Clinical-practical training • In-Training-Exam / Self-Assessment
  9. Diagnostic error Communication Specific diagnosis Failure in hand-off communication Difficult

    to diagnose Organisational issues Faulty reasoning Quality Circle Failure to consider alternative diagnoses Diagnostic equipment unavailable
  10. Alternative I: Learn the Technology Stack We do automated testing

    to ensure that our application works as expected by using • NUnit and Moq for unit and integration testing • Selenium and Specflow for user acceptance tests on the UI • Netsparker to check for security flaws and misconfiguration on the server
  11. Alternative II: Project Dependencies • Find the libraries your projects

    depend on • Order them by frequency • Learn the most used first
  12. Remember • Your work offers much to learn • Make

    learning a habit • Persist your knowledge • Don’t cut sleep
  13. Photo Credits • Aron Visuals • Piron Guillaume • darkmoon1968

    • Semanticscholar.org • TheVerge.com • rawpixel • Andrej Lišakov • Teemu Paananen • Shutterstock 483030007 • Dmitrij Paskevic • fitfloptw.info • Free-Photos • Bru-nO • Public Domain • Howlingpixel.com • CleanHandsSaveLives