The words to use
- Curveball
- A prompt you can't prepare for, such as an odd question, an unfamiliar object or a surprise task, used to see how you think without a script.
- Describe, interpret, connect
- A frame for images and objects: say what is there, offer readings and pick one, then link it to medicine through something you noticed.
- What, so what, now what
- A quick reflection structure, recommended in the 2018 reflective practitioner guidance: what happened, why it mattered, and what you will do differently.
- Inverse care law
- Julian Tudor Hart's 1971 idea that the availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need of the population served.
