Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Socratic Method
One of the things I enjoy most about Dr. C. is that he teaches via the Socratic method. If you don't know what that means, look it up. Just kidding.
The socratic method was developed in ancient greece by (guess who????) Socrates. Hah, I almost said egypt. Remember back to ancient history? Socrates taught aristotle taught alexander the great who killed a whole bunch of people in the name of - alexander the great.
Anyway, Socrates (pronounced So-crates if you're Bill and Ted) had this really bad habit of teaching by stopping a person on the street and asking a lot of questions. This got a lot of people to think - something we humans don't usually do on our own. For a long time, people were happy about it, he was popular, and life was good. For some reason, after many years, people turned on him and he was put to death for "heresy."
The truly interesting thing about socratic theory and the socratic teaching method is that you really learn alot because you tend to remember things when they are posed to you as questions, especially if you get them wrong. You never forget something you got wrong, right?
Anyway, Dr. C. likes to ask a lot of questions about different conditions - usually pertaining to the case at hand. If it's MI, he'll ask the top causes of MI (atherosclerosis, vasospasm, arteritis secondary to collagen vascular disease, trauma, inflammatory conditions, etc) or 5 complications after you have an MI (CHF, arrhythmia, pericarditis, papillary muscle dysfunction/rupture, extension of the MI). He also teaches alot about the cases, like what are the 5 F's of abdominal distention (flatulence, feces, fluid, fetus, and fatal tumor). He makes it fun, and you also get to learn alot.
He says he has been teaching for about 30 years and that he really enjoys it. It really shows in how he interacts with the students AND his patients. I don't know how many times in a day I've heard a patient say what a great doctor and teacher he is.
I'll second that.
more to come... ¶ 9:59 PM
The socratic method was developed in ancient greece by (guess who????) Socrates. Hah, I almost said egypt. Remember back to ancient history? Socrates taught aristotle taught alexander the great who killed a whole bunch of people in the name of - alexander the great.
Anyway, Socrates (pronounced So-crates if you're Bill and Ted) had this really bad habit of teaching by stopping a person on the street and asking a lot of questions. This got a lot of people to think - something we humans don't usually do on our own. For a long time, people were happy about it, he was popular, and life was good. For some reason, after many years, people turned on him and he was put to death for "heresy."
The truly interesting thing about socratic theory and the socratic teaching method is that you really learn alot because you tend to remember things when they are posed to you as questions, especially if you get them wrong. You never forget something you got wrong, right?
Anyway, Dr. C. likes to ask a lot of questions about different conditions - usually pertaining to the case at hand. If it's MI, he'll ask the top causes of MI (atherosclerosis, vasospasm, arteritis secondary to collagen vascular disease, trauma, inflammatory conditions, etc) or 5 complications after you have an MI (CHF, arrhythmia, pericarditis, papillary muscle dysfunction/rupture, extension of the MI). He also teaches alot about the cases, like what are the 5 F's of abdominal distention (flatulence, feces, fluid, fetus, and fatal tumor). He makes it fun, and you also get to learn alot.
He says he has been teaching for about 30 years and that he really enjoys it. It really shows in how he interacts with the students AND his patients. I don't know how many times in a day I've heard a patient say what a great doctor and teacher he is.
I'll second that.
more to come... ¶ 9:59 PM
