May 31, 2016
Simon Carley has us asking ourselves some confronting questions
about our abilities in his SMACC Chicago talk ‘Are You as Good as
You Think?’. Carley has us delve into our confidence, competencies
and whats makes for a good self learning environment.
Initially Carley asks how good we think we are at driving? He then
sites studies of Australian and European driver responses stating
that 93% of Aussies and 69% europeans rate themselves as above
average drivers. In using the example Carley suggests as
individuals we are not particularly good at rating ourselves, while
inexperienced people tend to rate themselves more highly then
experienced people, calling this illusory superiority
cognitive bias.
Carley asked the question since you can’t have awesome without
average, how do we measure ourselves?. He then talks us
through the following tools and processes to establish better self
learning and teaching processes;
Reflection Diaries - revisit it (clinically and physically), follow
up.
Peer reviews: 1:1 feedback doesn’t work. It needs to planned with
clear goals and objectives such as;
Clarify expectations
review logistics
focus lens
plan feedback
observe event (i.e teaching)
debrief and action
Clinical Feedback
Follow up - not just the exceptionally sick patients, but follow up
with the routine ones.
Build Peer Reviews into your practice.
Carley finishes by asking us to choose on of the following items
and commit to ourselves to making it happen within the month.
I am going to …
Organise Trainee Feedback
Focused 360 Assessment
Keep a Patient/Teaching Diary
Be Peer Reviewed
Reflect
Develop Team Feedback
Follow up with Patients
Something Else
Nothing I am already Awesome!
What have you committed too?