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It is often said that children of professors have a leg up in #HigherEd. They do.
So, in the spirit of uncovering the #HiddenCurriculum for others, here’s advice I’ve been giving to my own kid whom I’m dropping off to college this wknd iA.
A 🧵.
So, in the spirit of uncovering the #HiddenCurriculum for others, here’s advice I’ve been giving to my own kid whom I’m dropping off to college this wknd iA.
A 🧵.
Before I continue, I welcome additional advice +feedback (even pushback). Not all of this will apply to all. I am a non-TT faculty at a grad school so I don’t know everything about college (also didn’t go to college in the US) but this is what I’ve learned.
Ask for help! I cannot stress this enough. Especially do not be afraid to ask your professors for what you need to succeed (whatever that may mean to you).
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I was rounding with my team recently and you were our new patient. A student had presented your case at the bedside. You listened intently and offered corrections where needed. After examining you, I paused and twisted my mouth under my mask.
I narrowed my eyes.
I was rounding with my team recently and you were our new patient. A student had presented your case at the bedside. You listened intently and offered corrections where needed. After examining you, I paused and twisted my mouth under my mask.
I narrowed my eyes.
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This didn’t make sense to me. And to be clear— it may very well have made sense to someone else.
Just not me.
You: “You alright over there, doc? Look like your wheels turning hard.”
*laughter*
Me: “You got me. Yeah, I’m just trying to put this all together.”
Hmmm.
This didn’t make sense to me. And to be clear— it may very well have made sense to someone else.
Just not me.
You: “You alright over there, doc? Look like your wheels turning hard.”
*laughter*
Me: “You got me. Yeah, I’m just trying to put this all together.”
Hmmm.
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Like, your physical exam fit the story. And part of your lab tests and imaging aligned with the leading diagnosis. But then there was this other part of your blood work that threw a curveball.
Hmmm.
And so. I told you and my team exactly that.
Yup.
Like, your physical exam fit the story. And part of your lab tests and imaging aligned with the leading diagnosis. But then there was this other part of your blood work that threw a curveball.
Hmmm.
And so. I told you and my team exactly that.
Yup.
🧵On plagiarism + #HiddenCurriculum
Once I received an essay 90% copied from Wikipedia, and called the student for a meeting. I always start with two actions:
👉🏻I show a printout of the Turnitin report and explain that’s why we are meeting
👉🏻I ask if the student is OK
Once I received an essay 90% copied from Wikipedia, and called the student for a meeting. I always start with two actions:
👉🏻I show a printout of the Turnitin report and explain that’s why we are meeting
👉🏻I ask if the student is OK
Often, if someone was just ‘blagging’ their way through or thought they wouldn’t get caught, when I ask this question I get a blank stare, or a nervous laugh, or like, wat?
Sometimes a student breaks out in a cold sweat and says ‘that’s what I was taught to do at my old school is it wrong?’ or a defiant ‘what do you mean am I OK? are you ok?’
In this installment of unhiding the #HiddenCurriculum I want to focus on interviewing for first faculty positions!
(#academictwitter, @AcademicChatter, #epitwitter) 1/14
(#academictwitter, @AcademicChatter, #epitwitter) 1/14
In my field (epidemiology) the daylong or multiday in-person interviews for faculty positions (which some fields call "the fly-out") include a public talk and a series of one-on-one or group meetings and interviews. First, let's talk about the job talk.
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There are two things you need to accomplish in this job talk, you'll need to:
1) Seem like a professor
2) Display your prior work in a way that highlights your strengths and shows niches you could fill at this institution.
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1) Seem like a professor
2) Display your prior work in a way that highlights your strengths and shows niches you could fill at this institution.
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1/ I wanted to make a single starting point or hub of resources for all things cognitive neuroscience. Today I’m officially ready to share it! Across 55 ‘web pages’—funding sources, online learning, experimental stimuli, sample essays, and so much more!
meta-meta-resources.org
meta-meta-resources.org
2/ There is a particular focus on this site being up-to-date though. To do so, it relies largely on existing meta-resources (it gets its name cause it’s a meta resource of these meta-resources).
3/ These meta-resources are each regularly maintained, and almost all editable/open-source, so this website will be too!
Have to say something about the #MedBikini paper. I run the professional identity formation course for my institution. My intentions in the course are to pull back the curtain on the #HiddenCurriculum, and empower students to reframe what #professionalism should look like.
To me, this means:
✅Promoting #DEI
✅Dismantling #SystemicRacism, #WhiteSupremacy, and #Misogyny
✅Normalizing #DocsWithDisabilities, #ImposterSyndrome, and seeking #MentalHealth support
✅Building a group of #MDsLoading willing to #SpeakTruthToPower
✅Promoting #DEI
✅Dismantling #SystemicRacism, #WhiteSupremacy, and #Misogyny
✅Normalizing #DocsWithDisabilities, #ImposterSyndrome, and seeking #MentalHealth support
✅Building a group of #MDsLoading willing to #SpeakTruthToPower
Framework for the course is the seminal @AcadMedJournal paper from Cruess et al. from 2015 (👀👇).
#MedBikini authors have done so much damage, but to me, they have really laid bare what being socialized into the profession of #VascularSurgery really looks like.
#MedBikini authors have done so much damage, but to me, they have really laid bare what being socialized into the profession of #VascularSurgery really looks like.
Super hot take:
We should NOT assume graduate students know ANYTHING about research design, research methods, methodology or the mechanics of doing research even if/when they get accepted to a graduate program.
That is, don't assume undergraduates know how to do research.
We should NOT assume graduate students know ANYTHING about research design, research methods, methodology or the mechanics of doing research even if/when they get accepted to a graduate program.
That is, don't assume undergraduates know how to do research.
This is NOT a criticism of students, but more a concern with undergraduate and graduate programs where rigorous research desig and techniques are not taught or poorly developed.
Often times, we need to take students at their most raw and take them from zero to hero.
Often times, we need to take students at their most raw and take them from zero to hero.
So, be KIND and GENEROUS with students admitted to graduate programs who may not have the research skills you may have expected them to have. Make graduate programs equalizers and skills developers.
A gradual approach to teaching them how to do research may work best.
A gradual approach to teaching them how to do research may work best.
On #academictwitter people refer to a #HiddenCurriculum of informally acquired knowledge about how our world works that not everyone has equal access too.
I want to do some unhiding of this, in a few threads over the next few weeks...
Today = letters of recommendation! 1/n
I want to do some unhiding of this, in a few threads over the next few weeks...
Today = letters of recommendation! 1/n
Like most people at my career stage I've had a ton of experience with letters of recommendation (LORs). I've asked others to write them for me, written bunches myself, and having served on our epidemiology MPH admissions committee for years, I've read boatloads. 2/n
So, how do you go about getting good letters that advance the case that YOU should be selected for what you are applying for? 3/n
#ScholarSunday was a couple of days ago, but I've been having health issues so I hadn't promoted or commented on people you may want to follow or should follow. There's a metric ton of those folks, but I want to highlight people who provide resources for the PhD experience.
Before I met @tanyaboza in real life, I read her blog, "Get a Life, PhD" getalifephd.blogspot.com (Tanya is someone I consider a good friend since we both study Latin American issues and we see each other at LASA, usually). Her blog reminded me I could be a prof AND have a life.
One of the first people I saw unmasking and unveiling the #HiddenCurriculum that seems to elude new scholars who get into the PhD was @JessicaCalarco whose expertise in ethnography and qualitative methods complements her kindness and interest in improving students' experience.
Thinking about the #hiddencurriculum of uni life. Things we assume that undergrads know when they are arrive at uni, but maybe they don't. thread 1/n Like....#AcademicTwitter
.... how to write emails without being ....medium.com/@lportwoodstac… or sounding silly.... 2/n #hiddencurriculum insidehighered.com/views/2015/04/…
.... when they join a research lab, how to get the supervision they need 3/n #hiddencurriculum nature.com/naturejobs/sci…
1/Tweetorial! Exploring a novel conceptual model of the clinical Learning & Working Environment (LWE) #MedEd
Do you wonder what the Clinical LWE *is*? Given the energy we put into making the LWE better, why is this still such a confusing question?
So - can you define the LWE?
Do you wonder what the Clinical LWE *is*? Given the energy we put into making the LWE better, why is this still such a confusing question?
So - can you define the LWE?
2/In July 2017 an @AAIMOnline collaborative was tasked to recommend strategies for LWE improvement. In early discussions we realized we had no shared mental model of the LWE w/ which to systematically approach improvement. 2yrs later we are publishing a conceptual model.
3/Let’s start w/ the model & then explain its development:The LWE is the nesting of personal, relational, curricular, & structural domains as traversed by multiple learners, centered on the needs of individual or populations of patients, & influenced by the sociocultural context
#THREAD - Ce qu’il faut savoir (et que je sais) sur le doctorat.
Ca fait un moment que je veux faire ce thread vu le nombre de gens qui m’ont dernièrement contacté au sujet d’un doctorat : comment y accéder et comment ça se passe.
Ca fait un moment que je veux faire ce thread vu le nombre de gens qui m’ont dernièrement contacté au sujet d’un doctorat : comment y accéder et comment ça se passe.
J’ai combattu ma paresse pour aujourd’hui donc je vais disons organiser le thread en 2 parties. A savoir que dans la 2e tout ce que je dirai sera basé sur mon expérience personnelle et n’engage que moi. J’essayerai dêtre aussi objectif que possible
#hiddencurriculum #phdforum
#hiddencurriculum #phdforum
[1ERE PARTIE : ACCEDER A UN DOCTORAT]
Si vous voulez faire un doctorat que ça soit au Sénégal ou dans un labo étranger, la meilleure façon c’est de contacter directement le labo que vous avez en vue. Vous pourrez aller même plus en profondeur en contactant le responsable de...
Si vous voulez faire un doctorat que ça soit au Sénégal ou dans un labo étranger, la meilleure façon c’est de contacter directement le labo que vous avez en vue. Vous pourrez aller même plus en profondeur en contactant le responsable de...
Today I told my class that working class/poor students are less likely to know rules can be bent, and less likely to ask to bend them, or for other kinds of help, and I got an email from a sophomore saying that helped her make sense of why her first year was so hard.
I told them explicitly that they can ask for extensions on their papers, and how to do it, and that they can come to talk to me about their papers. Same student admitted they'd been overwhelmed about the paper, asked for an extension, and set up an office hours appointment. Win!
(I also mentioned that not all professors are as free with extensions as I am.)
(Also this was Forms of Capital day so it was perfect timing.)
(Also this was Forms of Capital day so it was perfect timing.)
Back to science reading ....
The problem with advice columns on reading science is that they make many assumptions about what the reader understands vis-a-vis the science paper.
The problem with advice columns on reading science is that they make many assumptions about what the reader understands vis-a-vis the science paper.
They assume that readers already have some understanding of the connection between what they're reading & the science that was done. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most learners first encountering a research article have only the vaguest understanding of what it is.
My model for teaching science reading is precisely learners with no real previous exposure. The goal is to dissipate any misconceptions about the truthiness of publication and the sanctity of scientists:
I didn't think my "start-up" document for my grad students (the resources I wish *I* had when I started a PhD) would prove to be so popular, so I figured I would share them here. So, here's what I've compiled so far. #hiddencurriculum 1/12
This is by no means exhaustive and is absolutely a living document. If anyone has suggestions or additions, please feel free to let me/twitter know! 2/12
1. The Professor is In by Karen Kelsky @ProfessorIsIn. The advice in this book is blunt, honest, and incredibly important for turning your PhD into a job. I used this later in my grad student career and will continue to use it in my academic career amazon.com/Professor-Esse… 3/12
I’m a fan of formalizing what people are supposed to osmose though their training so I love these tweets on the #hiddencurriculum of academia. I’ll start with a thread on cover letters (specifically for postdoc apps since I’m currently looking for one):
Please don’t omit the cover letter. It can contain some very useful info. In no particular order:
1) Is it even addressed to the PI or does it look like a generic letter that went to 50 other people?
1) Is it even addressed to the PI or does it look like a generic letter that went to 50 other people?
2) Can you effectively describe your achievements and most important findings?...not just what you‘ve done so far in your PhD but why it’s important or why you find it exciting. It helps if they can see your passion for your subject here-not just a laundry list of your results.
