We all know that scene in the movie (any medical movie - take your pick) where the consultant sweeps in with his retinue of newbies in tow, barely nods at the bewildered patient, (who's wondering what all this attention is about), snaps his or her finger at one of the students and in a disdainful voice dares that shivering student to say what Mr Smith/Jones/Bulkoski has wrong with him, and why, and what he's going to do about it.
It was one of the ongoing features of that long-running TV series, Scrubs, a programme we endured more often than we wished to, since our younger son seem to find it extraordinarily funny. Screenwriters think it's something audiences can get no end of enjoyment out of. It ain't so funny if you've actually been a patient in the real-life equivalent, of course.
Which is why there need to be courses for medical people, especially now that they're no longer automatically assumed to be God. A teach the teacher course
(also known as a train the trainer course) is a way of teaching doctors
how to teach trainee doctors (it may possibly go wider than that).
The teaching the teacher course is only one of a number of courses available to the medical profession. You can go on a consultant interview course (for when you're planning to leave that nasty hospital where you're not appreciated by those in management, and where they blame you for everything from the superbug that's hit the wards to the dust on the tops of the pictures - those funded by the hospital Art Fund).
It's possible, of course, that you may actually be to blame for the superbug, in which case you'd be wise to go on a medical teaching course and bring your knowledge up to date. As for the dust on the pictures, try a medical management course where your skills at handling the Dust Management Team will be honed.
Whatever the course you go for, it can only improve your skills in the medical field. With the extraordinary number of complications that can arise in that area, it's wise to keep on top of things!
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