Psychological protection

The Canadian Medical Protective Association: Leadership Essentials

An article with key information on psychological safety and its benefits, psychologically safe environments, and three steps to achieving psychological...

Resilience Coaching for Healthcare Workers: Experiences of Receiving Collegial Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This article explores health-care workers’ experiences when receiving collegial support from the psychiatry department at an acute care hospital during...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...