Week 6 Online Lesson Plan Task: Summary Writing


The article written by David Epstein and Malcolm Gladwell, “The Temin Effect”, agrees with the Temin effect and claims that people know other subjects as well beyond their major field. The authors of the article interviewed with Howard Temin, a molecular biologist who won the Nobel Prize after he discovered a reverse transcriptase which is a classification of enzymes to create DNA from RNA (Epstein & Gladwell, 2017). Temin studied not only his major field, molecular biology, but also other subjects, literature and philosophy (Epstein & Gladwell, 2017). To verify whether people can learn other subjects other than their major field like the Temin effect, Gurwin et al. experimented with medical students in the University of Pennsylvania to provide training sessions about art history at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and found that medical students developed observational and diagnostic skills to comprehend the basis of ophthalmology by studying art history (Epstein & Gladwell, 2017). Root-Bernstein, Allen, Beach, et al. discovered that Nobel Prize laureates tended to participate in serious hobbies unrelated to their field and their hobbies tended to involve serious aesthetic interests (Epstein & Gladwell, 2017). Mark Peterson explains that Galileo Galilei was interested not only in the science but also in the arts (Epstein & Gladwell, 2017). In order to prepare for studying ophthalmology, Gurwin et al. argues that medical schools need to focus on teaching medical students how to develop observation skills because observation and description are crucial to practice medicine (Epstein & Gladwell, 2017). Through these references from other scientists, Epstein and Gladwell give a concreate example of tennis players at the IMG academy in Bradenton, Florida that tennis players start its residential training program from the pre-kindergarten grade (Epstein & Gladwell, 2017). After giving an example of tennis players at the IMG academy, Epstein and Gladwell ask the readers a question whether tennis players at the IMG academy who practice tennis at a young age need to spend more time to study literature or not (Epstein & Gladwell, 2017). Epstein and Gladwell conclude their article, “The Termin Effect”, that the best expect is the person who also eagers to find the wider world by study other subjects beyond the one’s major field (Epstein & Gladwell, 2017).



Reference List

Epstein, D., & Gladwell, M. (2017). The Temin effect. The American Academy of Ophthalmology, 125(1), 2-3. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2017.11.008

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