AHTF 2023 Happy Hour with a Scholar

Friday, September 29th

Speaker: David Green MD

Title: On the Shoulders of Mortals

Location: ASHT Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX

Time: 6:30 pm (mingling from 6:30 pm to 7 PM, lecture starts at 7 PM). Will also be recorded for virtual viewing at a later date

Session Description:

On the shoulders of mortals is about how we teach and how we learn. Many different styles of teaching are described in this presentation, illustrated by real-life great teachers and caricatures of bad teachers.

Objectives:

1. Recognize your own style of teaching
2. Is there a way I could be a more effective teacher?
3. What is the common denominator of all good teaching?

Speaker Bio:

David P. Green, MD is best known as the editor of two widely used orthopaedic and hand surgery textbooks: 1) Rockwood and Green’s Fractures (now in its 9th edition) and 2) Green’s Operative Hand Surgery (now in its 8th edition). In 2016 he was named Baylor College of Medicine’s Distinguished Alumnus of the year. A 1967 graduate of the New York Orthopaedic Hospital (NYOH) residency program, thirty years later he was named Outstanding Alumnus of the NYOH. He started his academic career as a full time faculty member at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and currently is Clinical Professor Emeritus in the Department of Orthopaedics at that institution. Dr. Green is a past President of both the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and the American Foundation for Surgery of the Hand. His passion is teaching residents and fellows, and he takes great pride in the alumni of the fellowship program of the Hand Center of San Antonio, of which he is the Founding President.

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