Teaching Pathology: Thoughts and Observations

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Teaching PathologyThoughts and Observations
J. R. Newland, MD Emeritus Professor Pathology
Microbiology University of Nebraska
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Teaching PathologyThoughts and Observations

• Patients
• Students
• Faculty
• Ourselves

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Our Patients

• The patient must always come first
• In regard to teaching
• In regard to service work
• In regard to research
• In regard to administrative activities

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Our Students

• From the day of matriculation, they become our
  colleagues
• Respect as another physician
• Provide a safe environment for student to make
  mistakes

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Our Students

• Use active listening
• Listen to their opinions we can disagree and
  still be colleagues
• Small group interaction is the best
• Lecture can work very well with interactivity
• Images, images, images!

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Our Students

• Be honest with the students
• If you dont know an answer, say so.
• Be willing to learn from the students

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Our Students

• Have an open door policy
• Be ready and willing to listen to any problem
• Different students learn in different ways

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Our Students

• We are providing quality control for future
  patients
• It is unfair to the patient to graduate bad
  students
• It is unfair to the failing student to retain
  them too long

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Our Students

• Join GRIPE!
• Provides colleagues
• Opens opportunities
• Learn new things about teaching
• Gets you away to think about your own teaching

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Our Service Work

• Provides the experience to use in teaching
• Keeps you aware of advances in your field
• Provides a model for the students
• Keeps you in the real world of Medicine

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Our Research

• We need to examine what we have done
• Teaching
• Bench or clinical research
• We need to write
• The scholarship of teaching
• Provides a discipline of study

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Our Faculty

• Recognize the strengths of each and utilize them
• Be willing to accept different teaching styles
• Take the direct approach eyeball to eyeball
• Publicly and in writing praise individual faculty

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Our Faculty

• Theres nothing like a supportive chair for
  teaching!
• Motivates faculty
• Need to teach the teachers to teach

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Ourselves

• Focus on areas of excellence for your teaching
• Have a life outside the classroom and hospital
• Take part in the politics of your hospital and
  medical community

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Ourselves

• Reinvent yourself now and then
• Find a passion outside of Medicine
• Read, and read some more!
• Get regular exercise and plenty of sleep
• Live a quiet and peaceable life