Achieving his vision will not be easy.īeing a generalist doesn’t come easily but, in a world of increasing complexity and specialization, generalists will be needed to translate ideas between domains. R3 is an interdisciplinary course that brings philosophy, history, logic, statistics, and more together to help students learn how to “think” outside of their usually, specialized knowledge domain.

Casadevall founded a program known as R3: Rigor, Responsibility, Reproducibility (A Keynote outlining his thoughts: ). Casadevall, Chair of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This book has important implications for medical education and even closes with a discussion with Dr. He tackles deliberate practice, why it works in “kind” learning environments but not wicked environments, the importance of learning both “from” experience and “without” experience (using reasoning to connect disparate ideas), “sampling” activities to increase individual range, desirable difficulties in learning, analogical thinking, the downside of grit, and several other topics. These connections become even more important when trying to solve “wicked” problems. The basic tenet of this book is that our cultural infatuation with the “Head Start” mentality-getting learners, musicians, athletes, etc, to focus on their chosen talent earlier misses the important connections that can occur when breath is the focus instead.

If a great book can make you rethink or change your long-held beliefs, then Range is such a book for me. If only we can pare down useless minutiae, skip rotations without much value, etc, etc. By Rob Cooney( Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized Worldįor a while now I’ve believed that we can make medical education more efficient by tailoring the educational content to our learners earlier in their educational trajectory.

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