The Old & New of Medical Education

Viet Tran

Associate Professor Terry Brown convened the 21st National Prevocational Medical Education Forum in Hobart in late 2016. Among other things, Associate Professor Brown asks us to "keep an open mind, but not too open that your brain falls out..."

Associate Professor Terry Brown opens the 21st National Prevocational Medical Education Forum in Hobart in November 2016, discussing the 'old & new' of medical education. 

Through this discussion he shows us how far we've really come as educators & learners. 

In his synopsis of todays medical education, he doesn't leave any stone unturned, as he discusses the hot (& not so hot) issues of:

• Learner centred education
• Case Base Learning
• Problem Base Learning
• Wellbeing & Burnout
• Technology
• Simulation
• Social Media
• Assessment
• Workplace Based Assessment
• Student Evaluations
• The Doctor Fox Effect
• Patient Outcomes
• The 10% Effect
• Lengths of Training

Acknowledgment: Gary Smith & Co from armchair medical filmed some of the presentations from the conference that you can access from the Post Graduate Medical Council of Tasmania account here, or through armchair medical here. Their app is also worth a look!

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About the Presenter

​Associate Professor Terry Brown graduated in 1985 from Liverpool University Medical School, UK. After completing a 3 year GP training program he switched careers to Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine, qualifying as a specialist in 1996. In 2002 he emigrated to Australia, taking up a position as an Emergency Medicine Specialist at the Royal Hobart Hospital.

Since then he has had a number of roles in the field of medical education, including Director of Clinical Training and Director of Emergency Medicine Training at The Royal Hobart Hospital and Final Year coordinator at the University of Tasmania Hobart Clinical School. He has been the Chair of the Postgraduate Medical Education Council of Tasmania (PMCT) for the past 12 years. He is a former Chair of the Confederation of Postgraduate Medical Education Councils (CPEMC) and a recipient of the Geoffrey Marell Medal for outstanding national and trans-Tasman contribution to postgraduate medical education.