Saturday, September 29, 2012

Unpredictable variability

There is nothing more predictable than variability in learning in medicine. Largely perpetrated by the type of patient rolling through the door, the learning is based on the patients, their presentations and how those patients are utilized in learning. That variability is expected, understood and often the excitement that is learning in medicine.

But then there is the variability that is nothing but stress, created by the leaders of learning. That stress is caused by unpredictable, variable and ghostly expectations. The ones that largely live n the minds of those guiding the learning. Would it be so damaging to create success paths instead of failure paths at all?

Predictable variability is a God-send.
Unpredictable variability is a night mare