tailieunhanh - Achieving Excellence in Medical Education - part 4

Như Thomas Edison đã nhiều lần nhấn mạnh, sự kiên trì là một tính năng liên tục có thành tích cao hơn thiên tài. Sinh viên y khoa và người dân đã quen với suy nghĩ của mình như những người sáng, và hy vọng sẽ thành công. Trong một số trường hợp, một hiệu suất đáng thất vọng có thể để lại cho họ thua lỗ. | Understanding Learners 43 them are simply too difficult or that they have no control over their own destiny are much more likely to consider themselves failures than people who interpret setbacks as learning opportunities. As Thomas Edison repeatedly emphasized perseverance is a more constant feature of high achievers than genius. Medical students and residents are accustomed to thinking of themselves as bright people and expect to succeed. In some cases a disappointing performance may leave them at a loss. When that happens we cannot afford to act mules who merely keep trying the same thing over and over again only harder. Insanity was once defined as the expectation of deriving different results from doing the same thing. In contrast to the mule when the fox fails he changes his approach and does something different. Effort is not merely bull-headedness but the wealth of experience and ingenuity that lies at our disposal. Many features of medical education tend to discourage this attitude. For example our written examinations generally emphasize conformity. There is one right answer and it is the same right answer for every learner. We reward memorization and recall. Not only does this discourage the attitudes of skepticism and creativity on which the future of medicine depend but it also tends to undermine learners capacity to respond effectively to setbacks. Winston Churchill performed poorly in subjects such as mathematics and graduated near the bottom of his class in secondary school. He always knew however that he had a greater destiny in life and despite his parents and teachers despair he kept doing what seemed important to him. Eventually his efforts paid off and he became one of the most important political leaders of the twentieth century and won a Nobel Prize in literature. Churchill s story reminds us of the importance of risk taking. Victory alone is not what is most important. What is most important is performing at our best and making the best .