TEDxMaastricht - Lawrence Sherman - "Turning medical education inside out and upside down"
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Published 2011-04-06
Lawrence (@meducate) is known globally as a Continuing Medical Education innovator. Lawrence uses humor and technology in the CME activities that he designs as well as in his teaching and presentations. Lawrence is Senior Vice President, Educational Strategy for Prova Education, past member of the Board of Directors of the North American Association of Medical Education and Communications Companies (NAAMECC), and has served as an appointed member of the Professional Education Committee of the American Heart Association. Lawrence is Certified Instructor Coordinator, Emergency Medicine Institute at the Center for Learning and Innovation, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in Long Island, NY.
www.tedxmaastricht.com/
What is TEDx?
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxMaastricht, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxMaastricht event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.
Please take a look at this video that explains what TEDx has become:
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani,Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place in Long Beach, California, with simulcast in Palm Springs; TEDGlobal is held each year in Oxford, UK. TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily, and the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide.
TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local, self-organized events around the world, and the TEDFellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.
All Comments (11)
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Amazing and super informative ! Love this Lawrence. Integrate & Involve students from the very beginning.
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Fantastic! All medical educators should watch this now!
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Great presentation, very entertaining, involve patients in medical education. What a strange idea - why didn't we think of that before.
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I'm a medical student currently at Barts and the london in London unsurprisingly. I was very surprised and quite worried about learning the fact that medical education was very different in the rest of the world to the UK. We already have a system similar to what the speaker was suggesting which works incredibly well and hence the junior doctors in the UK are well known as being the best in the world
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That's an awesome talk , I Clapped about 2 minutes after it !!! My regards , A medical Student
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fantastic
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My Twitter handle is incorrect in the description - I am @meducate not @medicate
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Muito bom.
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This Is how its been for a lot of UK med schools for over a decade now...
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So, let's review how Continuous Quality Improvement works for every other system in the world. First: Identify a metric that corresponds to the goals you're trying to achieve. Two: Measure that metric. Three: Implement a change Four: Remeasure the metric. Every moron educator trying to create self-importance or justify their ongoing paycheck ignores this and instead hollers about the need for change without any supportive evidence for the change. This is why an education degree is right up there with a degree in Ouija Board Engineering.
