I wondered how you had "gotten away with" not masking. Now I see that you, in fact, didn't. (I have to believe that a bright AND level-headed bilingual doctor in Japan has other sources of generating income... Wishing you and your family the best.)
Ah, while I do teach at a medical school, I am not a doctor of any kind. After three and a half years stuck at home, my Japanese which never great in the first place is almost nonexistent.
The short answer is English. A large part is teaching them how to conduct the medical interview in English. This is far more than just language as they are taught to do this in Japanese with their fellow country men, not as full of one as we do/or used to do in the States anyway. In The Medical Discussion class I focus on getting them to think.
I draw upon my time in the engine room a lot for this class and others. Especially when working on how to interview. What MDs call the тАЬdifferential diagnosisтАЭ we call тАЬtrouble shootingтАЭ. It is challenging to get them to ask questions for the purpose of discovering the cause of the chief complaint rather than to just ask questions. We used to have several Simulated Patient workshops a year, now just one. I have been a cancer patient, have had a heart attack, gall stones, a diabetic and few others that we havenтАЩt done in a long while. Hope it it is not over Zoom again this year.
Senseless.
Well done adhering to your convictions.
Yes, but as the saying goes; no good deed goes unpunished. I now teach less than a third of the classes I taught prepanic.
I wondered how you had "gotten away with" not masking. Now I see that you, in fact, didn't. (I have to believe that a bright AND level-headed bilingual doctor in Japan has other sources of generating income... Wishing you and your family the best.)
Ah, while I do teach at a medical school, I am not a doctor of any kind. After three and a half years stuck at home, my Japanese which never great in the first place is almost nonexistent.
Come to think of it, your experience would suggest that non-doctors have a better grasp of the entire covid ruse --as well as better reasoning skills.
Do you mind if I ask what subject you teach at the medical school?
The short answer is English. A large part is teaching them how to conduct the medical interview in English. This is far more than just language as they are taught to do this in Japanese with their fellow country men, not as full of one as we do/or used to do in the States anyway. In The Medical Discussion class I focus on getting them to think.
I draw upon my time in the engine room a lot for this class and others. Especially when working on how to interview. What MDs call the тАЬdifferential diagnosisтАЭ we call тАЬtrouble shootingтАЭ. It is challenging to get them to ask questions for the purpose of discovering the cause of the chief complaint rather than to just ask questions. We used to have several Simulated Patient workshops a year, now just one. I have been a cancer patient, have had a heart attack, gall stones, a diabetic and few others that we havenтАЩt done in a long while. Hope it it is not over Zoom again this year.
That was very interesting. Thank you for the detailed response.
Oh, I see. I had assumed you spoke Japanese at home.