“Comparison is the thief of joy.” – Theodore Roosevelt In my April post, I shared some thoughts about the way we often provide feedback to our residents. To summarize, I pondered our use of normative-referenced […]
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Category: Pause for Thought
Clinician Educators and Midlife Crisis
By Daniel Cabrera (@CabreraERDR) The life cycle of a Clinician Educator (CE) is not much different from typical professionals in industrialized countries; however, there is a significant upfront investment in our careers (undergrad, med school, residency, […]
Pause for thought… Saying “I don’t know”
By Lynfa Stroud (@LynfaStroud) “True wisdom is knowing what you don’t know.” – Confucius I ended my last post saying I was going to follow-up with residents’ perceptions of score versus comments on ITERs, but I’m […]
Pause for Thought . . . Let’s ditch the numbers and focus on the comments when assessing learners
By Lynfa Stroud (@LynfaStroud) “Expectation is the root of all heartache.” – William Shakespeare In my role as an attending on the general medicine wards, I complete In-Training Evaluation Reports (ITERs) for the residents who […]
Pause for Thought . . . Lost time
(From the EiC: Please welcome Lynfa Stroud to the ICE blog editorial board. Lynfa is authoring a new regular feature Pause for Thought based on observations from the life of a CE. If you have […]
