[AAHM_Clio_Project] Clio help - surgeons & history

[Jennifer Gunn]

Thanks very much for this, Justin. The History of Medicine Program at
Minnesota is in the Surgery Department and the ACS initiatives and these
documents will provide useful material for us to discuss with our new
interim chair.

Best,
Jennifer

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Justin Barr <justbarr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues:
>
> tl;dr:  looking for suggestions on how to teach surgeons to write better
> history; see link/attached & please add/comment/criticize
>
> I hope this note finds you well and having enjoyed the holidays.  I write
> to ask your assistance in helping improve the quality of history authored
> by surgeons.
>
> The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has recently made a conscious &
> considerable effort to include, explore, and present surgical history.
> They now have history panels at their annual meeting, a history of surgery
> poster competition for students/residents, articles in their monthly
> *Bulletin*, a grant to support history research, and, as many of you know
> & have helped with, an effort to incorporate history into "boot camps" for
> all graduating medical students.
>
> The history produced has varied in quality from great to terrible.  Much
> focuses on heritage and hagiography rather than what we might call
> history.  Dr. Ted Pappas (cc-ed) is the incoming chairman of the ACS
> Surgical History Group.  He views the next step as elevating the quality of
> scholarship.  Certainly, the goal is not to make every surgeon writing
> history a PhD historian but rather have them understand the fundamentals of
> what makes a quality contribution to history (i.e. argument, what are & how
> to access primary sources, basic historiography, etc).  As we have all
> noted before, clinicians can bring important, different perspectives to the
> table; improving the quality of those contributions helps everyone.
>
> I attach herewith a tentative list of possible ways to help teach surgeons
> how to write better history (a list easily adaptable to other
> specialties).  I also made it a Google doc HERE
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TYM9Bxxny06PFLg_dP2b8LKJvZD6D5V6SlK6UqZXDYU/edit?usp=sharing>
> so people can add/comment collaboratively and simultaneously. (please let
> me know if the link does not work)
>
> (1)  I would great appreciate any and all additional suggestions / ideas /
> mechanisms.  Open to anything.
> (2)  I would be much obliged for commentary on those which I have
> suggested - how realistic?  how effective?  how useful?
>
> Happy to discuss via google docs, email, some online chat, or in person in
> LA -- whatever people think is best.  Thank you very much for any and all
> assistance!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Justin
>
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