Here’s an untrue story: your very first career move should somehow gel identity, passions, goals, location, finances, family planning, everything, in one high-speed precision job-landing. Funny how students know that’s not true, but can be prone to believing it anyway. Funny how believing it is a quick road to feelings of yuckiness (not to mention a time-suck). Funny how students training in […]Continue Reading
02MayWhat’s an aesthetic perspective?
I offer an aesthetic perspective. Nope, that’s not to say that I can advise you on decisions involving your hair length or your wardrobe (in fact, I could really use your help in those areas). It means I have experience in making art and responding to it, and training in how to see— and that […]Continue Reading
01MayWhy I Love Teaching/Learning Observation
Hi and welcome! I’m happy to have you here. For the most part, this blog is going to be about observation, an arts-based skill, in the context of medicine. Teaching observation as a professional skill is what I have been doing for much of the last ten years. Teaching it, and learning about its genesis and […]Continue Reading