Remarkable to me that they used the example of studying alcohol consumption and did not include addiction on the list of outcomes to be measured (an innocent admission I'm sure).
Also strange to me that Vinay is talking about this notion of having one lecture recorded and having everyone in the country just watch is as some sort of hypothetical. Already, a lot of med schools have lectures that students don't actually attend, so they can watch videos from Sketchy or Pathoma or Khan Academy or whatever. University of Vermont canceled lectures, period, several years ago. Plenty of more medical schools have empty lecture halls, including mine. We're already there. I didn't learn much of anything from the actual teaching in med school, especially the first two years. Fortunately there are other ways to learn.
My favorite part was the responses of both doctors to the question about nutrition. In my opinion, there is more nonsense written about the role of nutrition in health and disease than any other subject. A review of the annual best selling books over the past 50 years will bear that out. I often tell people to give me a blackboard and piece of chalk and I can teach them everything they will ever need to know about diet and nutrition in about 15 minutes.
VP is just an exceptional educator. Clear, concise explanations of often convoluted subject matter is his MO. He inspires me to really push on evaluating the quality of study design.
Remarkable to me that they used the example of studying alcohol consumption and did not include addiction on the list of outcomes to be measured (an innocent admission I'm sure).
Also strange to me that Vinay is talking about this notion of having one lecture recorded and having everyone in the country just watch is as some sort of hypothetical. Already, a lot of med schools have lectures that students don't actually attend, so they can watch videos from Sketchy or Pathoma or Khan Academy or whatever. University of Vermont canceled lectures, period, several years ago. Plenty of more medical schools have empty lecture halls, including mine. We're already there. I didn't learn much of anything from the actual teaching in med school, especially the first two years. Fortunately there are other ways to learn.
My favorite part was the responses of both doctors to the question about nutrition. In my opinion, there is more nonsense written about the role of nutrition in health and disease than any other subject. A review of the annual best selling books over the past 50 years will bear that out. I often tell people to give me a blackboard and piece of chalk and I can teach them everything they will ever need to know about diet and nutrition in about 15 minutes.
VP is just an exceptional educator. Clear, concise explanations of often convoluted subject matter is his MO. He inspires me to really push on evaluating the quality of study design.
Acoustics were bad.