This is what the 400 attendees told us at UGM255: A Book Club for PIGlets – newbie informaticists.
Did you miss our UGM 255 session? See the slides for our talk here.
I asked the question
What are the most important skills of a clinical informaticist bridging clinical medicine and information technology?
Some observations about our crowd-sourcing exercise (watch the 30 seconds here)
- It was cool to watch the cloud evolve in real-time on Poll Everywhere
- As expected, COMMUNICATION was the top skill, followed by other big ones: listening, translation, patience, relationships
- People are cute, they added: “p-value, sneaky, ukulele, thick skin”
- There are a great variety of words that make me proud of how thoughtful our group is, even in the couple minutes I gave us to work on this together.
Then I asked
What books do you recommend for newbie informaticist PIGlets (physician informatics group members)?
This is verbatim. There might be a few titles that might not exist. I love that in a couple minutes we could build such a robust library. Personally, my existing top 10 books include:
I am intrigued, from our crowd-sourced list, to pick up books new to me:
- Atomic Habits
- Animal Farm (time to re-read!)
- Never Split the Difference
- Green Eggs and Ham (hah! the DUUUBIOUS look is everything)
- The Mythical Man Month
- Literary Theory of Robots (looks interesting)
- Beginners (Tom Vanderbilt)
- Be Know Do
- Turn This Ship Around
What a wonderful collaboration of big brains sharing big ideas. I am grateful for standing on the shoulders of colleagues to see further into our future.
Finally, did you want to hear the song? The world premiere of
For the Times They Are a’Changin’ (apologies to Bob Dylan) ukulele parody
