Perioperative and Critical Care Medicine
Teaching is an ancient activity; it requires a predisposition and ability to transmit
one’s own knowledge to others. It is also an innate quality that tends to
strengthen over time, due to the interaction between teacher and pupil that
develops and intensifies during their association, and to the ready availability of
constantly improving teaching methods. Teaching is a predisposition to communication.
It is a constant commitment that becomes a way of life and offers the
capacity for self-renewal. In the clinical context, this desire to transfer and
receive information, together with the ability to summarise and authoritatively
reach decisions take on both professional and ethical significance....
