The right ingredients: essential if you want to bake the cake right!

Docēre, the Latin root for doctor, means to teach. At the heart of what we do as physicians is teaching; we teach our patients, their families, and our future physicians. Why do we devote so much time to education? No matter how well we diagnose and treat, if patients and families do not understand their treatment, it may be unsuccessful. No matter how knowledgeable and skillful we are, if we do not nurture the next generation, key knowledge, skills, and values will disappear. Disciplines Education | Medical Education This journal article is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/gse_pubs/255 The Right Ingredients-Essential If You Want To Bake The Cake Right! Aditee P Ambardekar, MD Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania [email protected] Stanton Wortham, PhD Judy & Howard Berkowitz Professor and Associate Dean Graduate School of Education University of Pennsylvania