Popular Culture in teaching
Having waxed lyrical about the possibilities afforded by fanfic for encouraging creative writing in school kids, my next foray into harnessing the power of popular culture is to suggest replacing the Problem-Based Learning curriculum in Medicine with a requirement to critique a few episodes of House.
Not only would you get the evidence-based, hypothesis-testing scientific approach to practising medicine, but you would also get to analyse motivations from doctor, nurse, administrator, patient and patient-social-circle context.
And you might even get a good laugh as well …
