‘See One, do One, Teach One’: Finding Your Mentor in Academic Medicine

Reflections from a “geriatric” patient

“…In the ensuing days, I reflected on my tumultuous month of May and asked myself, in the same way I ask my students, “What did you learn from this experience?” First and most importantly, I had the advantage of seeing the true value of geriatric care from an insider's perspective and in keeping with Dr William Halstead's teaching paradigm of, “See one, do one , teach one.” 2 My teaching of geriatrics will forever change from this day forward. Second, application of the principles of geriatric medicine is first and foremost, situationally specific and not prompted necessarily by an arbitrary metric (such as age).…”