Academic OB/GYN
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Academic OB/GYN is a blog and podcast created by Nicholas Fogelson, an academic OB/GYN physician at Pearl Women's Center in Portland, OR. His mission is to educate and amuse OB/GYN physicians and other interested parties with up to date information about our field.
Academic OB/GYN
3y ago
It’s been well documented that people are generally poor judges of their own skills. Dunning and Kruger studied and published on this topic, creating the term Dunning-Kruger effect, which summed up, states that “poor performers are not in a position to recognize the shortcomings in their own performance”. Ehrlinger et all followed Dunning-Kruger in their paper “Why the Unskilled are Unaware: Further Explorations of (Absent) Self-insight Among the Incompetent,” further coming to the conclusion that the relatively unskilled are unaware that they lack those skills. Other papers have shown that i ..read more
Academic OB/GYN
3y ago
Last week marked the passing of one of my early teachers and mentors, Dr Paul Underwood.
Dr Underwood was a professor emeritus at Medical University of South Carolina, where I attended a residency from 2001 to 2005.
I was fortunate to get to train in a residency that was full of extraordinary people. Little did I know that not every department was like that. MUSC was an incredibly caring environment that looked after each resident like a member of family. Paul Underwood was a big part of that.
I can also say that without Dr Underwood, I would not be an endometriosis surgeon today. There is no ..read more
Academic OB/GYN
5y ago
Hello Academic OB/GYN Fans!
I am proud to announce the launch of my new podcast project, The Endometriosis Podcast, with my collaborator and co-host Libby Hopton. The Endometriosis podcast is bimonthly discussion of the most recent literature in the endometriosis world. With Producer Andrea Muraskin as well.
Please listen, subscribe, and leave comments/reviews on iTunes.
Available at iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-endometriosis-podcast/id1462226534
Available at Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/andrea-muraskin-2/the-endometriosis-podcast ..read more