Do you try to keep up with all the new frameworks, patterns and trends in IT? Good luck, it’s an endless stream of things to learn. The good news: software development isn’t the only profession with this problem. Doctors face the same challenges and must keep the safety of patients in mind while working as cost-effective as possible. With much higher stakes, it’s no surprise that medicine is a highly regulated field with explicit rules on the lifelong training – rules that we can use as a source of inspiration for our training. In this session we will look how the doctors in Switzerland organise their continuing medical education, debunk some myths about learning and figure out how we can use our daily work as a jumpstart for improvement.

1. What Doctors Can Teach Us
on Continuous Learning
Johnny Graber
@j_graber
https://www.ImproveAndRepeat.com

2. Lack of Time

3. Professionals

4. Legal Requirements for Doctors in Switzerland
Art 40 MedBG on professional duties:
They deepen, expand and improve their
professional knowledge, skills and abilities
in the interest of quality assurance
through lifelong training.

5. • Doctors must do continuous medical training
Federal Law
• 80 Credits per year, 50 must be declared
FMH / SIME
• 5 credits per publication, max 10 credits / year
Professional Society of Intensive Care

6. Rules for Devs

7. Therac-25

8. Consequences

9. Expectations

10. To learn something, you need to
spend 10,000 hours doing it.
The 10,000 Hours Rule
on deliberate practise
master

11. A 20 Hours Approach in 4 Simple Steps
1. Deconstruct the skill
2. Learn enough to self-correct
3. Remove practice barriers
4. Practice at least 20 hours
Book: The First 20 Hours by Josh Kaufman

12. sleep work
all other
things
We work as many
hours as we should
sleep.
Why do we think sleep
deprivation is the only
way to learn?

13. How do doctors learn new procedures?
Not by taking patients home to
operate them on the kitchen table!

14. Categories of Continued Training
• Attending Events and conferences
• Lecturing and teaching activities
• Participating in a quality circle
• Scientific publication
• Poster presentation
• Intervision / Supervision
• Other training activities
• Clinical-practical training
• In-Training-Exam / Self-Assessment

15. Conferences

16. Lecturing

17. Publications

18. Poster

19. Diagnostic
error
Communication Specific diagnosis
Failure in hand-off
communication Difficult to diagnose
Organisational issues
Faulty reasoning
Quality Circle
Failure to consider
alternative diagnoses
Diagnostic equipment
unavailable

20. Intervision

21. Combine

22. What offers your
company?

23. Your Work Routine
Task Code

24. One Input, multiple Outputs
Task Code
Tests ADR
Doc
Share
.txt

25. Alternative I: Learn the Technology Stack
We do automated testing to ensure that our application works
as expected by using
• NUnit and Moq for unit and integration testing
• Selenium and Specflow for user acceptance tests on the UI
• Netsparker to check for security flaws and misconfiguration
on the server

26. Alternative II: Project Dependencies
• Find the libraries your projects depend on
• Order them by frequency
• Learn the most used first

27. Alternative III: Basic Parts of your Work
• Speed-reading
• Touch typing
• Daily used tools

28. Semmelweis

29. Actionable

30. Adapt to Adopt

31. Remember
• Your work offers much to learn
• Make learning a habit
• Persist your knowledge
• Don’t cut sleep

32. Thank you!

33. Questions?
JG@JGrber.ch | @j_graber
https://www.ImproveAndRepeat.com

34. Photo Credits
• Aron Visuals
• Piron Guillaume
• darkmoon1968
• Semanticscholar.org
• TheVerge.com
• rawpixel
• Andrej Lišakov
• Teemu Paananen
• Shutterstock 483030007
• Dmitrij Paskevic
• fitfloptw.info
• Free-Photos
• Bru-nO
• Public Domain
• Howlingpixel.com
• CleanHandsSaveLives