The alarming trend of school.
The most often used argument against medicine is that doctors don’t “get enough”. They don’t get enough training on specific topics; they don’t get enough training on how to manage a business; they don’t get enough training on how to manage a career…
This has created a discussion around, “What should be taught in school?” At what point does school take responsibility for teaching areas of life or business?
The foundation of this argument is that school is for providing all of life’s necessities. But at the same time, school takes away both agency — the ability to make a choice about what to learn; and self-motivation — the seeing for oneself, the importance of learning something, as opposed to being presented with it.
When there’s a minimum standard to be met, a lack of knowledge of what needs to be known on the part of the student, and a need to assure that standard, school is great. But in fields where learning is life-long, in areas that are changing (or at least, perceived to be changing), and where we deal in specific and unique patient/client needs, we have to have the ability to be nimble.
Nimble, not agile, because we’re not always changing directions.
Nimble, not agile, because we don’t play with other people’s lives, looking forward to the next mistake in order to “iterate”.
The story that school tells us is that “school provides”; and for that basic minimum standard, it does. But when we buy deeply into the story that “school provides all”, is when we lose the ability to be nimble.
Yes, we need to do better. More school is not the answer.
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