Mentoring and Learning in Medicine
Om Prakash Yadava
Paul T. Sergeant
10.25373/ctsnet.7757207.v1
https://ctsnet.figshare.com/articles/media/Mentoring_and_Learning_in_Medicine/7757207
<p>Om P Yadava and Paul Sergeant discuss the relevance of tacit
versus codified learning in medicine and the basic tenets of mentoring.</p>
<p>Professor Paul Sergeant from Leuven, Belgium, deliberates on
learning techniques and differentiates between tacit learning and codified
learning. He laments that proctoring has become more of a social visit with a
view to tourism rather than a mentoring visit with a view to teaching. Prof
Sergeant asserts that knowledge is never transferred; it is the information that
is transferred and that in turn can be converted into knowledge in the minds of
the learner. The information passed on to an individual will interact with that
individual’s perspective, experience, and the baggage that they already carry,
and thereafter it will be converted into different knowledge in each person.
Information can be codified or tacit. Codified information can be codified in
text, in visual form, in olfactory form, or any other perceivable form which
can be transmitted. By contrast, tacit information is silent information, which
is captured by the direct interaction with the mentor, and cannot be passed in
a codified form. In surgical mentoring, almost 90-95% of the learning is
codified and barely 5-10% is tacit, behavioral, and attitudinal learning. </p>
<p>Dr Yadava and Prof Sergeant then discuss proctoring. Current
proctoring is inadequate, and even the proctee must do his or her homework
adequately. Additionally, legal issues have to be kept in mind and are
discussed. Proctoring may bring certain risks to the hospital and the patient,
and this too should form a part of the legal frame work. Thus there are issues
concerning the proctor versus proctee, and the proctor and proctee versus the patient,
which should form the legal framework. Finally, in discussing who should pay
for the proctoring process, Prof Sergeant says that there should be a shared
responsibility between the proctee and the medical device industry to cover the
cost of proctoring. </p>
<p><b>Suggested Reading</b></p>
<p>1. Sergeant P. We should ban
the OPCAB approach in CABG, just as we should ban jetliners and bicycles, or
maybe not! <i><a href="https://doi.org/10.21037/jtd.2016.10.105">J Thorac Dis. 2016;8(Suppl10):S818-S823</a></i>.</p>
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