What Doctors Can Teach Us About Continuous Learning
summary
The talk compares medical continuing-education practices to software-team learning, highlighting mandatory credit targets, periodic audits, morbidity-and-mortality peer reviews, interdisciplinary tumor-board case conferences, simulation drills, and outcome tracking. It argues adopting concrete rules—set credit goals, scheduled peer review of real cases, short simulations linked to measured safety outcomes—reduces errors, and provides examples and numbers showing these practices are practical to adopt in software teams.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Continuous learning from doctors
- 10:09Doctors and medical software
- 19:12Tumor boards expertise
- 26:26Medical training and intuition
- 32:10Input-output in medicine
- 41:24Adapting medical workflows
- 47:45Medical thinking and storytelling
- 51:17Key takeaways
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