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How to Learn from Failure
This article discusses different types of failures in the medical field and how clinicians can learn from and improve their...
Overcoming Obstacles to Develop High-Performance Teams Involving Physician in Health Care Organizations
This article discusses how physicians and organizations can facilitate the development of high-performance health-care teams. It shares 10 dimensions and...
Trainees’ Perceptions of Being Allowed to Fail in Clinical Training: A Sense-Making Model
This article explores trainees’ awareness and their experience of failure and allowed failure. Interviews with post-graduate trainees confirm that they...
Creating Psychologically Safe Learning Environments to Counter Perfectionism in Medicine
This article shares resources about perfectionism and impostor syndrome to help create psychologically safe environments where medical students can learn...
Whatever You Cut, I Can Fix It: Clinical Supervisors’ Interview Accounts of Allowing Trainee Failure While Guarding Patient Safety
This article describes how learning in the medical field is in delicate balance with safety as faculty supervisors allow trainees...
Science Students’ Perspectives on How to Decrease Stigma of Failure
This article describes student perceptions on the stigma of failure and their associated concerns. It explores how failure could be...
Pre-prescribing: Creating a Zone of Proximal Development Where Medical Students Can Safely Fail
A research study exploring how educators can create “safe fails” that allow junior clinicians to safely participate in authentic, risky,...
Teams, Tribes and Patient Safety: Overcoming Barriers to Effective Teamwork in Healthcare
An article that proposes a seven-step plan to overcome the barriers to effective team communication, which incorporates educational, psychological, and...
Intra- and Interprofessional Practices through Fresh Eyes: A Qualitative Analysis of Medical Students’ Early Workplace Experiences
This article identifies a need to evaluate and respond to what students are learning about collaborative practice during clinical placements....
PGME Information Sheet: Hidden Curriculum
An information sheet with an overview of the hidden curriculum, including its distinctions from the formal curriculum, its impacts and...