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Personal career decisions during medical training are not complicated, they are complex

Lea Harper, Janeve Desy, Melinda Davis, Sarah Weeks, Kevin McLaughlin

Personal career decisions during medical training are not complicated, they are complex - Harper - Medical Education - Wiley Online Library

For medical training to be deemed successful, in addition to gaining the skills required to make appropriate clinical decisions, trainees must learn how to make good personal decisions. These decisions may affect satisfaction with career choice, work–life balance, and their ability to maintain/improve clinical performance over time—outcomes that can impact future wellness. Here, the authors introduce a decision-making framework with the goal of improving our understanding of personal decisions.

Mentorship in Medicine in a Complex opportunity

Lea Harper, Christopher A. Hergott, Sylvain Coderre, Kenna Kelly-Turner, Melinda Davis, Kevin McLaughlin

Mentorship in medicine is a Complex opportunity - PubMed (nih.gov)

Mentorship is now recognized as essential to the personal and professional development of physicians. Over the past decade, it has become a common theme in medical education literature, and through this our understanding of mentorship has evolved. Despite this progress, we believe that the prevailing reductionist view of mentorship is oversimplified and may hinder further advances in this space. Instead, we propose that mentorship be viewed through the lens of complexity theory, positioning it as a prototypical complex adaptive system. This shift in perspective will inform our mentorship interventions and evaluations, and can avoid the disappointment that invariably follows when we apply a simple approach to a complex situation.

Competence Committees decision making; an interplay of data, group orientation, and intangible impressions

Colleen Curtis, Aliya Kassam, Jason Lord & Lara J.Cooke

Competence committees decision-making; an interplay of data, group orientation, and intangible impressions | BMC Medical Education | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)

The implementation of competency-based medical education and utilization of competence committees (CC) represents a paradigm shift in residency education. This qualitative study aimed to explore the methods used by two operational CC and their members to make decisions about progression and competence of their residents.

Documenting Performance and Feedback in Medical Education: An Essential Skill - PubMed (nih.gov)

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