I've been slack in posting because I have, over the past month, been sucked into the administrative side of academia.
A month might not seem like a long time but believe me when I tell you that a months involvement in medical school administration can teach one a life full of lessons. I wouldn't have believed it myself before experiencing it, so take my word on this.
In the past month I have learned:
A month might not seem like a long time but believe me when I tell you that a months involvement in medical school administration can teach one a life full of lessons. I wouldn't have believed it myself before experiencing it, so take my word on this.
In the past month I have learned:
- how to defend myself and my students without being defensive. This is huge.
- how to defend medical students who need defense without defensiveness.
- how to stop defending medical students whose only defense is defensiveness.
- when to admit that a medical student should just fail. Full. Stop.
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I, for one, am proud of you. If more substandard students were weeded out earlier in the process (or not admitted in the first place; excuse me while I swoon at THAT thought) it would lead to far less heartbreak at the other end of the process.
It sounds like it was a confusing month. Well, at least I'm confused by it.
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