“When You’re in It, It Feels Like It’s Everything”: Medical Students’ Experience of Failure and Remediation in the United States and the Netherlands
Medical students have strong emotional responses to failure and remediation. Expecting and considering emotions such as shame, self-doubt, and anger could help educators design better remediation programs. Differences across countries may be at least partially explained by different degrees of time variability and flexibility within the curricula.
Authors
- Christy Boscardin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9070-8859)
- John Q. Young (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2219-5657)
- Terese Stenfors (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0854-8631)
- Olle ten Cate (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6379-8780)
- Melissa Duffy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3081-6265)
- Patricia O’Sullivan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8706-4095)
- Lynnea M. Mills (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6128-747X)
Institutions
- University of South Carolina (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- University Medical Center Utrecht (NL)
- Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell (US)
- Bose (United States) (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Academic Medicine
- Published
- 2024-08-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/acm.0000000000005845
- Citations
- 7
- Primary Topic
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.80