Tim Dornan

Internist and endocrinologist. (Qualitative) Education researcher: workplace learning, complexity, and clinical humanism. Active classical musician.

[Tim Dornan @ProfTimD]

After spending five years preparing to prescribe IV fluids, senior students felt unprepared to do so. Contradictions, overlaps, and gaps within the curriculum introduced extraneous complexity. Confusion and apprehension resulted.
https://t.co/f1LH0Z0kha

[Tim Dornan @ProfTimD]

Institutions used metaphors of heroism to celebrate medical graduates whilst the graduates identified themselves as incapable, vulnerable and fearful because the institutions had not taught them to practise. https://t.co/5AWtD8tn8N

[Tim Dornan @ProfTimD]

UK students becoming doctors were unready for safe practice during COVID. Despite copious teaching and exams, inexperience of practice can cause paralysing fear. More supported experience could make students useful members of stretched clinical teams and safer graduates

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

Elsevier is losing editors

[Tim Dornan @ProfTimD]

The Tories’ green course of action would be to recycle existing prime-ministers, who could then re-resign rather than expend carbon on wrecking Britain in new ways.

[Tim Dornan @ProfTimD]

@Megan_EL_Brown @LiangRhea The ABC of Medical Education 😀😀

[Megan Brown @Megan_EL_Brown]

@LiangRhea @ProfTimD Thank you! I am going to go + look up Tim's sketch (do you know where to find it?). Maybe it should be inverted! I organised it this way based on my perception of how common the various theories are, but I completely get grand theories as overarching.

[Tim Dornan @ProfTimD]

OBE: recycled repeatedly for >50 years. Is it really the future? #AMEE2022 Atomising doctors into measurable learning outcomes cannot produce caring and capable doctors but does dehumanise and disillusion them. See this critique. Thoughts?

[Tim Dornan @ProfTimD]

@care_under @WOW_Surrey @KarenMattick From my experience of working with the Exeter team, this is indeed a fantastic opportunity to work with inspiring leaders in medical education research.

[Care Under Pressure @care_under]

📌Fantastic opportunity to join the Care Under Pressure team! 2 posts: Research Associate, and Research Fellow. 2 years. Excellent opportunity to apply realist research to a NHS priority issue! Application closing date: 15th March 2022. https://t.co/1i4iTvR8LW

[Tim Dornan @ProfTimD]

Wise clinicians help students learn from patients by:
o Being supportive
o Ensuring they participate
o Giving slightly more responsibility than they expect with slightly more independence than they want
o Trapping errors before harm ensues
Helping students reflect on experience

[Tim Dornan @ProfTimD]

"Contexts in which doctors learn to care for patients must be the contexts where doctors balance real benefit and harm. Education research within this complexity is in its infancy." Call for medical education research to 'get real' published in December issue of Medical Teacher

[Stephen Doyle @StephenDoyle123]

So excited to be published in @Lacunae_Journal with @drgkearney @DrHelenReid & @ProfTimD Our piece is entitled, ‘The Case for Lacan in Medical Education’ @QUBMedEd Thanks to @DrEveWatson and @appi1appi for the opportunity 😊 #psychoanalysis #MedEd #Lacan

[Tim Dornan @ProfTimD]

Doctors’ complex mix of attributes provides the human touch, which makes healthcare greater than a series of ‘correct’ actions. Patients & doctors will be mutually safer when we return to educating doctors to respond wisely to complexity, rather than just in assessable ways.

[Tim Dornan @ProfTimD]

Interprofessional knotworking transcends boundaries between professions, allowing lambs rather than wolves to remove the boundaries that bedevil interprofessional education.

https://t.co/ASIQj269oX

[Hannah Gillespie @gillespie_hj]

Should we sanction interprofessional education?

A word of caution - 'sanctioning interprofessional learning is unlikely, alone, to be sufficient. Trusting in its sufficiency could cause disabling contradictions'

🔓Open Access Commentary available here 👇
https://t.co/It5OLwyHNY

[Tim Dornan @ProfTimD]

Pedagogy is 'a teacher forming an educative relationship that creates a zone of proximal development where a student can learn to the best of their abilities.' A leading textbook has 28 times as many pages on assessment as pedagogy. Help us reverse that ratio for future editions.

[Tim Dornan @ProfTimD]

Glad your inner Thespian has had its big moment but don’t let it go to your head

[Royal Institution (now on Bluesky) @Ri_Science]

Don’t think this needs context #XmasLectures

[Medical Education @MedEd_Journal]

"Whilst it is tempting to abandon workplace education when students are numerous and clinicians are busy, pandemic conditions encouraged us to use good learning opportunities creatively" #meded
https://t.co/jR5BLUc41L
@gillespie_hj @DrNeilK @ProfTimD

[Hannah Gillespie @gillespie_hj]

“Competent but unprepared new graduates are sitting ducks for psychosocial harm”

Training and testing students off the job does not alone ensure patient safety. We need to do better.

Our editorial, published today in @bmj_latest explores this and more👇🏼

https://t.co/V71EQolq6I