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1/A little over a decade ago, as a junior resident and novice researcher I wanted to explore why non-anesthesia physicians (and other healthcare professionals) did not appear to fully understand the work of the anesthesiologist.Wanna know what I thought I’d do? Wait for it
1/A little over a decade ago, as a junior resident and novice researcher I wanted to explore why non-anesthesia physicians (and other healthcare professionals) did not appear to fully understand the work of the anesthesiologist.Wanna know what I thought I’d do? Wait for it
2/ I was going to design an “educational intervention” to “help others” understand what anesthesiologists do so that we could “work together more effectively”.Hmmm...luckily for me the person I went to speak to as my potential supervisor at the @theWilsonCentre gently pointed me
3/ to a sociologist who was an expert in interprofessional education. This person graciously and *extremely* patiently then guided me through two years of research work where I learnt that this question did not have any easy answers or fixes. There was MUCH to be explored,
4/ learnt&way more questions than answers presented themselves in the pursuit of trying to understand what is essentially a complex, nuanced, sociological phenomenon encompassing the intricacies& rarely discussed (in traditional medical lit at least) issues of power,hierarchy,
5/ silos, professional identity formation, and more. So, was I wrong to ask the research question and think that there was a simple answer that I could attack with the only epistemological stance I had ever been exposed to in medical school? No, I was not wrong. Misguided yes,
6/ wrong, no. My curiosity was met with kindness, guidance and the good fortune of having the opportunity of excellent research mentorship and financial support via the Currie Fellowship award. This is my long-winded way of saying that the journal editors of the American Journal
7/ of Emergency Medicine had a responsibility to guide Dr Kim and colleague @joonghee_emdoc in contextualising and framing their exceedingly well intentioned paper prior to publication. We are all learning here. I’m just as much a novice in many ways regarding many subjects
8/ as I was when I asked that initial research question a decade ago. As a #meded community - particularly those who sit on editorial boards and are thus the gatekeepers of our scholarly work and its dissemination - we need to do better. Dr Kim your curiosity is the reason there
9/ are such things as journals at all. I apologise if the #medtwitter response (which included my own initial outrage) has stifled yours or anyone else’s right to ask legitimate questions. Myself and many colleague await a response from the journal, upon whose shoulders the
10/ responsibility squarely sits.
The person who guided me patiently& taught me so much, Dr Scott Reeves, is no longer with us, but will be remembered by the #Meded community for his huge contributions. Thanks to him and @charlreessidhu for always supporting my curiosity.
The person who guided me patiently& taught me so much, Dr Scott Reeves, is no longer with us, but will be remembered by the #Meded community for his huge contributions. Thanks to him and @charlreessidhu for always supporting my curiosity.
