I am coming up for air after the first teaching session of the module…..
Got off to a good start, when I arrived to find that a very smart tutorial room (complete with PC) had been booked for my exclusive use for the afternoon, and that a visitors swipe card/ID had been arranged for me. Unfortunately, although it got me through one set of double doors, the card didn’t get me into the anatomy department or into the room allocated for the life classes as these are “restricted areas”. Ah well, you can’t have everything.
Then, a good one-to-one session with our first student who has decided to investigate the role of “graphic medicine” in communication between patients and doctors -which is great, as I don’t know much about it, but I know a man who does: http://graphicmedicine.org
The first life class probably a success, although whether I’m the best judge of that is debatable, since I did a lot of talking and general exhortation and hopping around, and assume, since I was on a self-induced high, that everyone else felt the same. Anyway, everyone seems very keen, and they’ve promised to come back next week. And I have had a lesson in thermostat management, so should be able to improve the ambient temperature for the model. 20.5degrees C. may be fine if you’re wearing the normal complement of clothing, but it ain’t if you’re standing stock still without a stitch on….
