Recess Rehash: This Student’s Shame is Changing Our Curriculum

The Short Coat (Audio): An Inside Look at Getting Into and Getting Through Medical School · Dec 31, 2020 · 57m

Doctors and medical students often have an identity based on perfection and infallibility. Often it that identity comes from their own expectations of themselves, and sometimes it comes from external sources. Whatever the source, it's both motivating and problematic to feel shame when mistakes are made or when knowledge is imperfect. Fourth-year student and future OB/Gyn doc Luci Howard visited with MD/PhD student Aline Sandouk and M1s Caitlin Matteson, Morgan Kennedy, and Emerald Dohleman to talk about her project to create a curriculum about shame and medical student identity. Her shame--as…