Again, there’s nothing groundbreaking discussed. In the middle of the dinner, however, W put forward her view, “I always find it difficult to understand why our colleagues take so much effort to do clinical teaching or mentoring or supervision or whatever. Isn’t it possible to ask the students to sit there and see what we are doing? I suppose they could learn quite a lot by just observe.”
I was horrified. Thank goodness CL, a senior consultant from another hospital, took the trouble and explained to the senior geriatrician why simple observation doesn’t work. To me, the argument is self-evident: If most of us could learn by observation, all of our hospital amahs would, with time, be promoted to become consultant physicians, and the desk of our ward clerk would be the professor of medicine.
Oh, maybe that does happen.
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