Anna and I have completed nearly 20 years as teachers in different medical colleges. This has given us a wide expanse of experiences and insights that we treasure.
Let me share three insights.
Let me share three insights.
The medical students are looking for friendships with teachers. They would like to have close contacts with teachers who are open to interaction and listening. Most students would like to know the personal experiences of teachers in the profession for them to get a glimpse of what await them. Teachers communicate better if they are story tellers from their anecdotal experiences. Students take in lot of it and use it to formulate their thoughts and perspectives.
The students look for clarification of values of integrity and honesty, principles of ethics and good practices and a lot about working as an interdisciplinary team. It is through watching the conduct of a teacher at the bed side of a sick person, or while relating to an indifferent student or coping with demands of work that consume enormous time, the students would get a preview of how he or she has to get ready for the future. The impressions which students carry with them from the first hand experience of their teachers give them an inner direction to choose their own path. Students are intense in observing and would consider some teachers as their life-long role models. Teachers are more than information providers; they are formators.
The students look up to the teachers to get an overview of the practice of medicine. As they learn their individual subjects they process their learning in a fragmented way. It is the teachers, who can excite the students about the history of medicine and the opportunities which are before them. It is during the training period, most students consider the subjects of their specialty training in the future or locate a place to go to work for long or short term or discover the vocation or calling they sense about their future. The students are often open to be guided, provided teachers engage the students who are ready to make sense about the way they would like to prepare for their future.
I wish students and teachers become co-learners- students finding teachers as their resources and teachers learning from each batch of students about their mid-set and needs.
A medical college setting is a dynamic and stimulating environment.
Anna and I are glad that we have had the best period of our lives well spent in teaching institutions. Students contributed to our formation socially, spiritually and academically.
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
The students look up to the teachers to get an overview of the practice of medicine. As they learn their individual subjects they process their learning in a fragmented way. It is the teachers, who can excite the students about the history of medicine and the opportunities which are before them. It is during the training period, most students consider the subjects of their specialty training in the future or locate a place to go to work for long or short term or discover the vocation or calling they sense about their future. The students are often open to be guided, provided teachers engage the students who are ready to make sense about the way they would like to prepare for their future.
I wish students and teachers become co-learners- students finding teachers as their resources and teachers learning from each batch of students about their mid-set and needs.
A medical college setting is a dynamic and stimulating environment.
Anna and I are glad that we have had the best period of our lives well spent in teaching institutions. Students contributed to our formation socially, spiritually and academically.
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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