This weekend, Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy delivered a keynote at the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) Annual Meeting. The Twitter feed echoed the fantasy of flipping the ether dome. Medicine via the Khan Academy method. Then came the question, ‘If Sal Khan were medical faculty member would he get tenure?’ It raises the question about what we ... Continue Reading about Sal Khan – Would He Survive in Academic Medicine?
It’s Becoming Harder to Fake it as a Speaker
Not long ago I served as a panel speaker at a large, national medical meeting. The subject matter was social media. The panel consisted of myself, another doctor with a well-established platform and a third woman, a high-ranking member of The Society. The problem was the third panelist. As she began to speak the live tweeting began. People on the other side of ... Continue Reading about It’s Becoming Harder to Fake it as a Speaker
Why Every Doctor Should Read Platform
This week I read Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World by Michael Hyatt. While reading it I thought that this book should be in the hands of every doctor with a passion, project or idea. So what’s a platform? Very simply, a platform is the thing you have to stand on to get heard. It’s your stage. But unlike a stage in a theater, today’s platform is not built ... Continue Reading about Why Every Doctor Should Read Platform
Surrogate Platform for Doctors
I’ve always suggested that doctors should make things. They should write things that people read and record things that people view. I’ve even gone so far as to suggest this as a moral imperative for docs. I’ve talked to a few doctors recently who want to make stuff but who don’t care so much about hosting a Wordpress blog or even going through the motions of ... Continue Reading about Surrogate Platform for Doctors
Doctors and the Fear of Web Permanence
I recently read this Washington Post article on doctors and technology. It took an angle that most of my readers are accustomed to. Doctors at the precipice of major change. Early adopters versus the old guard. ‘Welcome to the new age of medicine.’ More compelling than the close up photograph of Natasha Burgert's desk (I’m secretly obsessed with people’s ... Continue Reading about Doctors and the Fear of Web Permanence
For Doctors, the World is Too Big to Know
I recently read Too Big to Know by David Weinberger. Times have changed. We used to get information from books or experts. But now knowledge is on the network. Patients have access to the same information as doctors. Everything we understand about knowledge, where it lives, and how it’s shared is changing. Too Big to Know occupies itself with the fact that the ... Continue Reading about For Doctors, the World is Too Big to Know