I remember when I graduated med school in Prague in 2004. Yes, 2004!! Feels like yesterday, at least that is what we keep telling ourselves (we beeing a rather large crowd of friends still in touch since Uni) until we realise it was 16 years ago. Anway this is not about swelling and dwelling in the past, I will come back to that in a later article.
Now, after taking my final state exam in July 2004, and obviously passing it, yes on my first attempt by the way, I met up with a really good friend in the city center. Himself beeing a resident of general surgery aiming at becoming an aesthetic surgeon eventually. As friends do, he congratulated me at my achievement that day as friends do. Right? But the advise that followed straight after was very unexpected. No, he did not say “come on let’s celebrate and get drunk”. It was actually “So, after 6 years of studying, reading countless books and compressing TB of data into that neuronic convolut that we call a brain, you can and you will now forget at least 60% of everything and start all over again at 40% of your knowledge.”
Think about that statement for a while.
Well, I came to realise quite soon that he was right. Theory is good, in theory. But real health care is a totally different matter. As most of us know clinics is not taught in text books. In novels. Yes. In books to a movie and books to series. Yes. Ok there are many, rather good articles on clinical cases as well……..yes, but imho a lot are just so dry, so boring, so statistical, so never ending and general that I have to keep my self awake with my favourite drink after coffe- Red Bull (light). Yep, I know, not healthy at all. I am not 25 anymore, but 35:). Got to watch that liver and me kideneys, ain’t it.
By pure chance I came along, https://mediamice.com/ . No, not a kids book. Mediamice is actually a pretty cool and fun content marketing company operating out of Singapore. They are publishing the piemagazine.org, the cakemagazine.org and lately they have added the cookiemagazine.org . Believe it or not, all 3 have nothing to do food, apart from in a very abstract manner, undermined by explanatory pictures.
IT IS ALL TO DO WITH “COOL, FUN, RIGHT” OPHTHALMOLOGY!!
Yep, I thought someone is having a laugh at first, just to come to realise, the idea is actually more than just a laugh, but a well interesting, informative, easy to use source (no Red Bull needed) of knowledgable ophthalmological data. I will not give a way anymore myself as I am just in the midst of their latest article. So take a look yourselves. It is not necessarily the only source I would use whilst studying for finals in ophthalmology, but definitely a very good introduction to various fields of real ophthalmology, bypassing dry, boring , statistical data.
I do like it, so keep up the good work mediamice. Nice one!
So, did you take a look? What do you think? Could that be the right direction to make information in health care more fun? What if there was a way to combine medically indispensible teachings with a more playfull flow? Or should we stick to reading 500+k pages or more realising that 60% of all we have read and spent time on memorising might have been just too much?
Let me know, drop me a line under comments would be very interested to get your view on things.
All the best and stay healthy
Dor
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