That was supposed to be "trained", not "raised".

How sad that I find myself wishing for features of the other platform, where you can edit your post in the first hour.😩

Totally agree that it would be helpful to have more of an "area under the curve" approach to adverse events...but we would need to change how the clin research world collects, analyzes, and reports AE data. After that, we could address how to present those data.

It may take some getting used to, but I think it would be clear & distill to just what a clinician (or pt) would care about. An alternative could be to just have bar graphs show same info. Do folks like this kind of called out subset of AEs? Is one format easier (both showing same data)?

She is really something. My gift to her is that I provided none of her genes.

I really liked this book but just read the biography of Thomas Mutter (in anticipation of visiting his namesake museum in Philadelphia in a few months). That book provides a rich enough historical context that I want to re-read The Facemaker now.

Finally, today w/streaming videos (Netflix, etc.), we see a multi-episode series tell a story over 1-10 hrs rather than fitting all narratives into a 90-120 min movie. Great!

We should step back & reflect on time needed to best convey med/sci data & retain messages well: less is more! (5/5)

Even if tasked w/50 min live talk, audience will stay engaged better if it is broken into sections of 10 min or less, w/few points in each. In between, interactive Q or a clinical case can transition to new section; also, a case serves as a STORY. Our brains are ready-made to encode stories. (4/5)

To maximize internalization of our messages, ideally we’d break it up into mentally digestible pieces of 10 min or less (“chunking”).

When programs can be made into pre-recorded videos, I’d favor breaking 45 min of content into a series of ~5 or more shorter pieces. (3/5)

The idea of an attention span being fixed at 7 or 9 min (or being conditioned to <2 min by TikTok) is an oversimplified myth. It depends on how engaging data are & how easy or hard to incorporate into audience understanding. But it’s usually <10 min, not a 50 min lecture. (2/5)