Pete Ellis

In Boston, few places are as iconic as Boston Common, the country’s oldest public park and the green space heart of the city. Nearby sits Boston Public Garden, the golden dome of the State House, and The Monty Boston apartments at 127 Tremont Street. The 19th-century historic building, once home to commercial businesses such as the Jackson & Company Hatters and Furriers, fell into disrepair after decades of deferred maintenance.

Clinical experience is the sine qua non of medical education. Teachers and students often assume this is synonymous with “seeing more patients.” We wish to highlight what else it might be. The COVID-19 pandemic limited clinical access for many students and raised concerns about the consequences for students’ training. Since we often only appreciate things when they’re gone, the lack of clinical access prompted us to consider what it was that students missed out on. Was it just seeing patients?

In March 2016, whilst working at Guerrilla Cambridge, I wrote an article titled ‘Subverting Player Expectation’ which was a discussion about making a game engaging and impactful by altering established mechanics and gameplay. This focused on examples from the original “The Last of Us” and “Batman: Arkham Knight”. My original article on subverting player expectation raised these points: You should have established a pattern before considering subverting the pattern.