Blown away!
Jul. 11th, 2008 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moominmuppetI've been back to patient-instructing after not being on the schedule much in the past couple of months. Right now it's Residents, who are actually my favorite in many ways, since we work with them on a full medical history role-play. This allows me to do some educating on topics I don't normally get to in the normal course of teaching the exam itself.
I've been thrilled with all four I've had this week, and been having a great time teaching again, but last night blew me away.
Every so often we get a student through one of our programs who stands so far above the crowd that we call and let their program know, personally. Steph's making that call for this woman, on my request. Wow. Haven't heard a medical history done that well, that appropriately, that thoroughly, with only the barest bits of tweaking from me (she was so excellent I could just focus on "fine-tuning" tiny details), in the eight years I've been working in the program. Even more astounding, from her accent English isn't her first language -- it's hard to navigate sexual history well in your first language without tripping all over things. Doing it at all well in a second language is incredible. Doing it that unbelievably well, down to details of phrasing, is mind-boggling.
Additional little happy note? In talking to Steph later, turns out she came through our program as a second year.
I've been thrilled with all four I've had this week, and been having a great time teaching again, but last night blew me away.
Every so often we get a student through one of our programs who stands so far above the crowd that we call and let their program know, personally. Steph's making that call for this woman, on my request. Wow. Haven't heard a medical history done that well, that appropriately, that thoroughly, with only the barest bits of tweaking from me (she was so excellent I could just focus on "fine-tuning" tiny details), in the eight years I've been working in the program. Even more astounding, from her accent English isn't her first language -- it's hard to navigate sexual history well in your first language without tripping all over things. Doing it at all well in a second language is incredible. Doing it that unbelievably well, down to details of phrasing, is mind-boggling.
Additional little happy note? In talking to Steph later, turns out she came through our program as a second year.
