Lectures are now taped at Harvard Medical School, prompting professors to break into song and dance during their lectures. Everyone wants to be an entertainer:
Now that lectures are videotaped, Harvard medical professors seem to be hamming it up for the camera, using song and dance to entice students to watch and learn.Earlier this month, Shiv Pillai tried genres as diverse as the ode, the mantra, and hip hop to summarize and attach some sort of teleology to complicated immunology pathways while lightening up otherwise tedious lecture-packed days. His melancholy take on T cells: “Looking for antigen below and above, Many will die of unrequited love.”
“Thread that peptide into TAP,” he added with an enthusiastic shimmy, encouraging us to join in. “Everybody do the lymphocyte rap!”
Related posts:
- Are conflicts of interest with the pharmaceutical industry causing a rift at Harvard Medical School?
- Harvard medical school: An embarrassment of riches
- More on Randy Pausch
- Dr. Rob makes the NY Times
- CME to be scrutinized
- Treating the dead
- The NHS Song
KevinMD.com on Facebook
{ 1 comment }
This is why I stopped lecturing residents. I know. I should just try harder. But it seems hard to keep their attention with imporatant information. The nintendo generation feels entitled to being entertained with a multimedia show. What ever happened to taking responsibility for paying attention instead of handing that responsibility off to the presenter.
Older practicing docs, I still lecture to, if I make it relevant to their problems in practice, they pay attention with sound and light shows.
Comments on this entry are closed.