Episode 103: Dr Vinay Kumar Part 2 - Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease and Evolving Teaching Styles
Mar 14, 2022•45 min•Ep. 105
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Episode description
Today my guest is once again Dr Vinay Kumar
What we discuss with Dr Kumar:
- Proving that Natural Killer Cells are distinct from T cells.
- How "it's better to be right than to be first."
- How Dr Stanley Robbins asked him to be a coauthor of his textbook
- The process for revising the textbook, and that "there is no good writing, only good rewriting."
- How revising the textbook became a form of research
- The evolution of his teaching style, incorporating flipped classrooms and online interactive elements
Links for this episode:
The Accidental Pathologist: A Curiosity-Driven Journey from Plant Evolution to Innate Immunity
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Functions of Natural Killer Cells
Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease
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