Flexible or Concrete: Goal‐Setting Behaviours in Canadian Medical Students

This research offers important insight into goal-setting behaviours of medical students. Flexible and concrete goal-setting scripts introduce another framework through which educators and learners alike can examine and reflect upon goal-setting strategies. Implications of the scripts being modified due to external drivers need to be considered to support learners. Students have limited awareness and purposiveness around their goal-setting behaviours.

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The Clinical Teacher
Published
2025-10-10
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https://doi.org/10.1111/tct.70229
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1
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Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
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2.31

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Flexible or Concrete: Goal‐Setting Behaviours in Canadian Medical Students

Cheryl Goldstein, Marilyn A. Cairns, Victor Do, Cassandra Sillner
1 citations
The Clinical Teacher
Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
2.31
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Flexible or Concrete: Goal‐Setting Behaviours in Canadian Medical Students

Cheryl Goldstein, Marilyn A. Cairns, Victor Do, Cassandra Sillner
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Abstract

This research offers important insight into goal-setting behaviours of medical students. Flexible and concrete goal-setting scripts introduce another framework through which educators and learners alike can examine and reflect upon goal-setting strategies. Implications of the scripts being modified due to external drivers need to be considered to support learners. Students have limited awareness and purposiveness around their goal-setting behaviours.

The Clinical TeacherVol. 22(6)
University of Alberta (CA)
University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta
Openalex Percentile: Top 10%
Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
2.31
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