Aggressive Teaching

I didn't just see that did I? An older, experienced, clinical instructor made a young medical student cry. What? There is absolutely no reason for a level of teaching aggression that causes a student of medicine, in any discipline, to cry. Remember when you were a new student struggling for your existence? What an asshole!!

How did it become the norm for the bastards of medicine and surgery to rise to the top of the academic medicine food chain? I can't imagine a worse scenario than the halls of medical academia filled with attitudes, agendas, insecurities, child-like behavior, tempers, egos and gross teaching negligence. Yet here we are.

There certainly are teacher exceptions to this observation and movements forward to a new perspective, but I am dismayed by the entropy, the forward motion, making the problem worse than I can ever remember. Assholes have NO place in teaching future physicians, physician assistants, nurses and others. They rob learners of their excitement for a field that is already difficult enough to navigate. They create roadblocks to learning where none should exist.

Do your part today! Kick one of those assholes in the nuts, today!
Ok, not really, but beware and create influence where you can.

Or just become a quality, mentoring, supportive, empowering teacher of young minds.
It robs you of nothing and contributes boatloads to the future of medicine.
It may actually feel good too.

Bullying Culture of Medical School
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/the-bullying-culture-of-medical-school/